It has happened a total of 697 times in Major League Baseball history from 1876 through the 2015 season. The triple play. All three outs in a half-inning completed on the same play.
The first time that the Phillies turned a triple play was all the way back on September 8th, 1890, in what was only the eighth season of the franchise’ existence. On that Monday afternoon at National League Park (later Baker Bowl), Baseball Hall of Famer Harry Wright‘s Phillies defeated the Brooklyn Bridegrooms by a 4-3 score.
Helping the team to secure that victory, raising their record to 43-48 at that point, was the triple play turned when ‘Grooms shortstop Germany Smith grounded to Phils’ shortstop Bob Allen, who began the play that continued to 2nd baseman Al Myers, and finally 1st baseman Al McCauley.