Astros’ Jake Marisnick turns unassisted double play (GIF)

Houston Astros centerfielder Jake Marisnick turned a rare unassisted double-play at first base.

Amid the hot start for the Houston Astros, centerfielder Jake Marisnick made a play that you don’t often see in Major League Baseball, or any level of baseball for that matter.

In the bottom of the fourth inning against the Los Angeles Angels, Marisnick fielded a pop fly. Then this happened:

For those of you scoring at home, you probably have never had to scratch 8-unassisted double-play onto the box score before.

It’s safe to say that you don’t see the centerfielder doubling up a runner at first base by running and tagging the bag himself every day.

Obviously that was a heady play by Marisnick to run and touch first base—though you could argue that throwing to the first basemen might have been simpler—but this play doesn’t happen if Albert Pujols has a little bit of awareness regarding the number of outs in the inning.

Pujols apparently thought that there were already two outs in the inning, so he takes off and doesn’t put forth any effort to get back to first. Subsequently, this whole highlight was made possible.

Let that be a lesson to any aspiring baseball players out there: always be aware of the game situation or you could wind up being the reason for someone else’s highlight.

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