Rockies turn a triple play on an interference call

There's a lot going on in Colorado this season. Troy Tulowitzki has hit every ball that has come near the plate to the tune of a 1.259 OPS. Charlie Blackmon is hitting .339, second in the National League (to Tulowitzki, natch). And the team is 25-20, in second place in the NL West.

The good times kept coming in the Rockies' Sunday night victory against the Padres. Sure, Justin Morneau (who is also having an amazing season: .327/.355/.585 with 9 HR) hit a walk-off home run in the 10th inning, but there was another break that came earlier in the game. 

In the third inning, the Padres were threatening to extend their lead with two men on and no one out and Carlos Quentin at the plate. But the Rockies quickly erased that with your usual 5-4-3 double play, no, wait ... triple play because of Seth Smith's slide at second base which was ruled interference. While this was the 693rd triple play in Major League history, it was only the third  after an interference call. 

Did the Rockies use a temporal world shifter to accomplish this, moving second base over a few feet? Were the Lords of Luck smiling down upon the Coors Field Nine? Did Superman fly over the field and distract Seth Smith? 

"Like, this is how Superman flies, right? How's he do that? My hands don't do that."

The answers to all those questions, my friends, are in the skies: