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Show MANY HITS WITHOUT SCORING Pirates Made Three Triples, a Single, and Two Passes Without Counting Count-ing a Run. "Is it possible," asks a Joliet, III., fan, "for a team to make three triples, a single, and get two bases on balls in one inning and then fail to score a run?" Not only is It possible, but such an incident actually happened back in 1SU2. The Pirates were playing the Cubs in Pittsburgh, with Pittsburgh at bat. The first three Pirates tripled. Two died trying to stretch their drives to homers. Then came the two passes, filling the bases. The next batter Idrove the ball along the third base line. It hit the Pirate runner coming in and he was out under the "hit-by-batted-ball" rule. The batter, however, officially wua credited with u slugle. |