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In a game played on July 17th, 1990 before a Fenway Park crowd of 34,113, the Minnesota Twins turned two triple plays against the Boston Red Sox, a feat that had never happened before in the major leagues. ![]()
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The first defensive gem came in the bottom of the fourth inning. Erickson was facing the top of the Red Sox order, after retiring the first nine batters in order. Wade Boggs walked and Jody Reed doubled to deep right-center field. Boggs stopped at third base. Carlos Quintana walked, and suddenly the bases were loaded with nobody out. Tom Brunansky hit a hard groundball down the line at third base. Gaetti gloved it, stepped on third, and fired to second baseman Newman, who pivoted and fired to Hrbek at first, completing the triple play.![]()
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โWade was on third,โ said Gaetti after the game, โand I said to him, โWade, a 5-4-3 triple play is coming up right here.โ Go ahead โฆ ask the umpires โฆ ask Wade. Wade even tipped his hat to me when he came out the next inning.โ Boggs acknowledged the prediction. โI guess that puts Gaetti right up there with Nostradamus, the Amazing Kreskin, and Karnak the Magnificent,โ Boggs said later. Twins second baseman Newman corroborated the story. โGary looked at me right before the play and said, โWeโre getting three.โ But he always says that. What was weird is I told Jody Reed that we were going to get a triple play. He said, โThe way things are going for us, youโre probably right.โ When we walked off the field, we just looked at each other. It was spooky-like.โ![]()
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In the eighth inning, defensive lightning struck again. Naehring led off with a double to left-center field. Boggs drew a walk. With the runners going, Reed hit a sharp grounder to Gaetti at third, who again stepped on third base and threw to second. Newman made the catch and force out and threw to first, completing the triple play and getting Reed by several steps.![]()
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โItโs kind of like landing on the moon, huh?โ said Reed, the Red Sox second baseman. โWeโre the first.โ4 Red Sox manager Joe Morgan added an interesting point: โI put the hit-and run on so we wouldnโt hit into a double play. So we hit into a triple play.โ5![]()
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Jeff Lenihan of the Star Tribune wrote that โin their effort, the Twins nominated the Gaetti-to-Newman-Hrbek triumvirate to a place alongside Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance in baseball lore.โ No one remembered to collect either of the baseballs as artifacts. However, the Baseball Hall of Fame asked Gaetti to donate his glove. He told reporters, โMaybe. โฆ I need that glove. I really do.โ![]()
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Dr. Dave Abrahamson, a professor at Rhode Island College at the time, calculated the odds of turning two triple plays in the same game to be approximately 370,000 to 1, meaning that fans should see it happen โonce every 175 years.โ![]()
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We are excited to announce that Kirk Rueter's Shed auction site is live!! See some of the first memorabilia that Kirk is putting up for auction by visiting www.RuetersShed.com today! These items are from Kirk's personal sports memorabilia collection. Watch for more items coming in theGaetti Sports AcademytCastle Ridge - Stonewater - IIIaSee Centralia C#gaettisportse#seecentraliae#castleridgeastleridge
Congratulations to Riley Martin on his upcoming start for the Cubs tonight! A Salem native, Riley was called up earlier this season and we are excited to watch him tonight. Riley has been a frequent visitor to the Gaetti Sports Academy in the off season and he encouraged the other young athletes. We are all looking forward to seeing him continue to advance in his career. Go Riley!!![]()
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We had a great day celebrating Opening Day of MLB and Gary Gaetti Day while raising funds for the Illinois State Police Summer Youth Camp! Gary cooked up a big mess of crawfish, and we had longest drive and longest hit contests with great prizes. ![]()
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