Fansided · Jan 28, 2016
Phillies History: Triple Plays
The Philadelphia Phillies have turned 31 triple plays in franchise history, the most recent back in the 2009 season.
It has happened a total of 697 times in Major League Baseball history from 1876 through the 2015 season. The triple play. All three outs in a half-inning completed on the same play.
The first time that the Phillies turned a triple play was all the way back on September 8th, 1890, in what was only the eighth season of the franchise’ existence. On that Monday afternoon at National League Park (later Baker Bowl), Baseball Hall of Famer Harry Wright‘s Phillies defeated the Brooklyn Bridegrooms by a 4-3 score.