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Check Out This Bonkers Double Play from a Minor League Game

This double play has an incredible degree of difficulty.

This clip, tailor made for the Vine medium, comes to us from a minor league game between the Auburn Doubledays and the West Virginia Black Bears. In the top of the eighth, the score was tied and Auburn's Clayton Brandt was up with one man on and no outs. He tried to bunt his teammate over to second and put the go-ahead run in scoring position. Then shit got acrobatic.

Brandt bunted it directly in front of home plate, where catcher Chris Harvey was able to make a very quick play by throwing to second to get the lead runner. He shorthopped it to the bag, though, and shortstop Stephen Alemais had to crouch down to make the play, losing his balance along the way. Despite falling backwards like Neo avoiding bullets in the Matrix, he somehow managed to fire a strike to first base to get Brandt out by three steps for a bizarrely beautiful double play. I've watched it at least a hundred times.

West Virginia scored in the bottom half of the inning and went on to win 6-5.