Guess Who Else Ran Into Two Outs At Home Plate On The Same Play? Yeah, It Was The Mariners

In yesterday's NL Division Series game vs. the Mets, the Dodgers' Jeff Kent and J.D. Drew got tagged out at home on the same play (video available here).

Your loveably loseable Seattle Mariners also once "accomplished" this, in a 1985 game against the Blue Jays, but theirs was even weirder. After a run-down of the players involved, we give you the report from the original Retrosheet box score:

Dramatis Personae:
Phil Bradley: Mariners leftfielder and former All Big-Ten QB.
"Stormin'" Gorman Thomas: Slugging Mariners outfielder with shaggy hair and perpetual five-o-clock shadow.
Buck Martinez: Blue Jays catcher and future manager and ESPN analyst.
George Bell: Blue Jays leftfielder and possessor of a magnificent jheri curl.

G. Thomas singled to right [Bradley out at home (right to catcher), Martinez breaks ankle on collision at plate; Thomas takes 3b on throw; Martinez (on ground) throws into lf; Bell throws home and Martinez makes catch and tag while seated. G. Thomas out at home (catcher to left to catcher)];

So, as Dave Niehaus undoubtedly said, "That goes 9-2-7-2 if you're scoring along at home."

The throw from leftfield was complete luck. Martinez, whose ankle was broken, couldn't move, but the ball went right into his mitt on the fly, and Thomas stepped right into his tag. Magnificent. The Mariners lost the game, 9-5, in 13 innings.

Is it weird that this sort of annoys us? Why couldn't you have slid around the tag, Gorman? Jesus!