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New York Yankees Triple Play: How the Players and Coaches Saw It

class="ui-droppable">In the ninth game of a season that many Yankee fans have already had time to give up on due to the team's age, infirmity and downright unlikeability, the Yanks did something no one saw coming, and no team had ever done before.

In the top of the eighth, with New York leading the Baltimore Orioles 5-2,  Baltimore's Manny Machado hit a sharp one-hopper to NY second baseman Robinson Cano. Baltimore's Nick Markakis and Alexi Casilla, on first and second respectively, had to hold up to see if Cano would be able to spear the ball on a line. When it bounced, both were in awkward positions.

Cano quickly tossed to shortstop Jayson Nix covering second for the force on Markakis. Nix then alertly threw back ...

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