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Twins OF Byron Buxton's highlight catch starts first 8-5 triple play in recorded MLB history

Sometimes, you go to the ballpark and see something that has never been seen before. Like the Minnesota Twins turning a kind of triple play that has never been recorded in MLB history.

Facing the Chicago White Sox with no outs and men on first and second in the seventh inning, Twins pitcher Griffin Jax gave up what looked like a tiebreaking three-run homer, or at least an extra-base hit, to A.J. Pollock. Twins catcher Ryan Jeffers seemed to think so, immediately sinking forward when he saw the contact.

And then, well, Buxton made a very good play, while the White Sox baserunners made a very bad play.