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LOS ANGELES — One pitch, two replays, three outs.
“I’ve seen triple plays, but none quite like that,” Dodgers left fielder Matt Kemp said Tuesday night. “I guess there’s a first time for everything.”
The Cleveland Indians turned an unorthodox triple play that required a pair of video reviews in a 10-3 victory over Los Angeles.
Rookie left-hander Kyle Crockett (2-0) got the win with an inning of one-hit relief — all three of Crockett’s outs came on the triple play.
Crockett came on and Adrian Gonzalez lifted a fly to left fielder Michael Brantley, who threw out Dee Gordon at the plate. Yan Gomes then noticed Yasiel Puig breaking for second and fired to Jason Kipnis for the tag on Puig as he went in headfirst.
Cleveland manager Terry Francona challenged the original safe call by second base umpire Paul Nauert and got the ruling overturned, giving the Indians three outs on one play after a replay delay that lasted 1 minute, 29 seconds. Dodgers manager Don Mattingly then came out to challenge the call at the plate by Adrian Johnson, and that call stood after another wait of 1 minute, 34 seconds.
“I don’t think that play itself was frustrating at all,” Gonzalez said. “It was just two guys trying to be aggressive — one guy trying to score and the other guy trying to get into scoring position with two outs, and they made the right throws. The only thing that matters is that we lost the game. We had them on the ropes in other innings, too. But regardless of what we did with their starter, we didn’t do much as far as winning the game.”