What is "triple play"

n. 1 (context baseball English) A defensive play in which three outs are recorded. 2 An offering of three bundled services, especially telephone, television and broadband Internet.

n. the act of getting three players out on one play

In baseball, a triple play (denoted by TP) is the rare act of making three outs during the same continuous play.

There are many ways the defensive team can execute a triple play, most occurring with runners on first and second base. Typically, a ball hit to the shortstop or third baseman is fielded, the runner heading to third is forced out or tagged out, the ball is thrown to second base for a force play, and then finally to first to throw out the batter. Another likely sequence is a line drive to the shortstop or second baseman that is caught without the runners noticing or after they have taken large leads (as in the case of a hit and run), the runners then being forced or tagged out when they fail to tag up.

A triple play is a baseball play in which three outs are made as a result of continuous action without any intervening errors or pitches between outs.

Triple play may also refer to:

• Triple play (telecommunications), the grouping of Internet access, TV and telephone service
• Triple play, a group of methods for distributing Mobile digital TV
• Triple Play (FIRST), a game for the 2005 FIRST Robotics competition
• Triple Play, a 1967 album by Johnny Hodges
• Triple Play, a 1974 film by Ray Dennis Steckler
• Triple Play, a 1997 book by Elizabeth Gunn
• A kind of multi-play video poker
• A thin type of magnetic tape
• Triple Play (video game), a baseball video game series by EA Sports
• Triple Play, a pricing game on The Price Is Right
• Triple Play, a game show sketch on PBS' Square One Television
• A Triple Play optical disc set, which provides the buyer with three formats of the movie or TV show they have purchased
• Triple Play (film), a 2004 American film starring Zac Efron

Triple Play was the name of the 2005 season FIRST Robotics Competition game.

Triple Play is the debut album by jazz double-bassist Martin Pizzarelli, who typically can be found performing in trios led by his brother John Pizzarelli. This album features Martin performing with the former pianist of John's trio, Ray Kennedy, and his father Bucky Pizzarelli on guitar.

Triple Play is a form of home entertainment optical disc distribution which provides the buyer with a film or TV series in three different formats in a single keep case. The formats are Blu-ray Disc, DVD, and a digital copy. In some cases, an Ultraviolet copy will be included in place of a DVD.