Did you know that there have been only 2 triples hit this season in the first inning of a game where the bases were loaded when the triple occurred?  Thanks to Play Index, it's easy to find unquie stats like this one.

Josh Willingham (a former catcher) and Jason Varitek (currently a catcher)  are the only two batters to pull this off this season, to date.  And, they did it within 20 days of each other back in May.

Just for the heck of it, I went back to see how many bases-loaded triples happened in the first inning, since 2000.  Basically, there's around 2-4 times that this occurs per season. 

And, in addition to the two this season, it's been done by Bobby Estalella in 2000, Jorge Posada in 2002, and Javy Lopez in 2003.  They're all catchers too.

Who says that catchers are slow?

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