NEW YORK – Not a lot has gone right for Brad Lidge this season. In fact, so much has gone wrong, at such inopportune times, you wouldn’t blame him for subscribing to the law of Murphy, which also happened to be the last name of the Mets’ hitter whose infield single put the tying run on first base with no outs in the bottom of the ninth yesterday. But after Daniel Murphy’s base hit, which followed fielding errors by Ryan Howard and Eric Bruntlett and set up the very real possibility of a ninth blown save for Lidge, something changed. You can view it as poor strategy by the Mets, a fluke play, or an inevitable turn of fate for two hard-luck players.  In the end, Lidge and Bruntlett’s karma ran over the Mets’ base-running dogma as an unassisted tripleplay capped the Phillies’ 9-7 victory and left both clubhouses stunned.  It was the second time in major league history that a game ended on an unassisted tripleplay, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. The other came on May 31, 1927, when Tigers first baseman John Neun ended a game against Cleveland. It was the 15th unassisted tripleplay in history – including one in the 1920 World Series – and the first since Cleveland’s Asdrubal Cabrera turned one against Toronto on May 12, 2008. The last Phillie to turn an unassisted tripleplay was Mickey Morandini, who did it at Pittsburgh on Sept. 20, 1992.

Its amazing how Charlie Manuel always has to somehow sneek his little buddy Eric Bruntlett into every game somehow.  It usually bothers me cause I personally think the guy is a horrible baseball player, but on Sunday when he got the start and was tearing it up I was all smiles.  Now we made a big deal about Mark Buerle’s Perfect game which was the 18th perfect game in major league so we have to make a little bit of a big deal about the  15th unassisted triple play in major league history.  Was Bruntlett in the right place at the right time yes, was he out of position  no, I know some people out there thought he was out of position and just got lucky, but the truth is that idiot manager for the mets had a double steal on with no outs so Bruntlett was simply going towards the base where the runner was headed with a righthanded batter at the plate its Bruntletts job to cover the bag and Rollins job to play his normal position.   So was there a little luck involved yes, but he was definitely not out of position.  It’s amazing how rare perfect games and unassisted triple plays are when you think about the thousands of games that are played each season.  And its even more rare for one team to have 3 of the  33 accomplishments, 1 perfect game and 2 unassisted triple plays.  Its amazing!  Well congrats to Manuels little buddy Bruntlett for his 5 seconds of fame after yesterday I’m sure everybody in the world has already forgot about him.  ENJOY IT!

-ITALIAN STALLION