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High School Pitcher Makes One of the Coolest Unassisted Double Plays You’ll Ever See

Andy Nesbitt

This was one heck of a double play turned in by Joaquin Durazo.
This was one heck of a double play turned in by Joaquin Durazo. / @FiveToolCA

If you've watched baseball before, chances are you've seen some pretty great double plays turned. The video below of a high school pitcher going all-out to get an unassisted double play might be the coolest ones you'll ever see.

Joaquin Durazo, who plays for a high school travel team in California called Bandits National, is the star of this story. First he chased down a foul pop up and made a sweet diving catch near the on-deck circle.

He then quickly got up and ran to home where he tagged out a runner who somehow thought he might be able to sneak in for a run.

Durazo taught him otherwise. Check this out:

The diving catch. The mindfulness to then think about the runner. The dive to tag him out. The kid really did it all on that play.

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ANDY NESBITT

Andy Nesbitt is the assistant managing editor of audience engagement at Sports Illustrated. He works closely with the Breaking and Trending News team to shape SI’s daily coverage across all sports. A 20-year veteran of the sports media business, he has worked for Fox Sports, For the Win, The Boston Globe and NBC Sports, having joined SI in February 2023. Nesbitt is a golf fanatic who desperately wants to see the Super Bowl played on a Saturday night.

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