PHOENIX – Nobody in the Majors loves triples like Corbin Carroll loves triples. D-backs fans have become accustomed to watching the speedster hit terminal velocity as he cuts the bases in pursuit of three bags ever since he arrived in August 2022. But what about being inside the dugout when it happens?
“It’s honestly one of the coolest things ever,” said Tommy Troy, who made his Major League debut Sunday.
“What's a stand-up double to everybody else – the majority of people in the big leagues – it's a stand-up triple for him,” manager Torey Lovullo echoed.
Carroll became the second player in D-backs franchise history to record 50 triples, then upped the ante by adding another three-bagger for the fifth multi-triple game of his career. All told, the right fielder finished 4-for-4 as the D-backs topped the Rockies 9-1 at Chase Field on Sunday afternoon.
The win is their seventh in the past eight games, and the D-backs have won 18 of their first 28 home contests for the first time since 2017.
Carroll extended his active MLB-best hitting streak to 12 games in the first when he ripped a hanging breaking ball from Jose Quintana down the right-field line at 108.9 mph. But for as eye-popping as the exit velocities can be when Carroll makes contact, the real fun starts when he takes off.
Zooming from home-to-third in 11.05 seconds, Carroll checked in with the third-fastest time on a triple this year. In first place? Well, that’s him, from Tuesday night.
But the 25-year-old wasn’t done. Facing flamethrowing righty Seth Halvorsen in the sixth, he turned around a 99.1 mph fastball and turned on the jets. Cruising into third just 11.36 seconds later, he now holds five of the top 13 home-to-third times across the Majors this season.
Carroll’s eight triples not only lead the Majors, they double up the second-closest player (Chandler Simpson, four). There’s more than four months to play in the 2026 regular season, but the right fielder is on a never-seen-before trajectory – should no one be able to track him down, Carroll will become the first player in Major League history to lead the sport in triples in three consecutive years.
“I just think there's value in taking the extra base,” Carroll said. “If you can get [to third] before two outs, you don’t necessarily have to get a hit in order to score a run. I’m just always trying to run hard and make the job easier for [a] teammate.
“I just want to take advantage of what’s given to me, and when the opportunity is there, I definitely want to take the extra base.”
The D-backs outfielder became the second-fastest player to reach 50 triples and 80 home runs in a Major League career (537 games), behind only Hall of Famer Lou Gehrig, who did so in 461 games for the Yankees.
The only player left for Carroll to pass on the franchise’s leaderboard is Stephen Drew, who accumulated 52 triples over seven years and more than 2,900 at-bats in a D-backs uniform. Carroll, baseball’s preeminent triple artist, could surpass that mark with nearly two fewer years of service time and a thousand fewer trips to the plate.
Or as D-backs starter Ryne Nelson put it: "He might get it tomorrow.”