Trevor Plouffe had gone 11 games without grounding into a double play before it happened again Friday night.
That it wiped out the Twins' only baserunner of the night -- other than Joe Mauer's solo homer -- only made Plouffe's majors-leading 22nd double play of the year that much more painful.
While Plouffe leads Oakland's slow-footed Billy Butler by three for the majors' lead in this dubious category, he's also 10 ahead of his career high and just six shy of Harmon Killebrew's Twins franchise record, set in 1970.
Mauer, tied for fourth in the American League with 17 double-play grounders, has a shot at his personal high of 24, set in 2006.