PHOENIX — Corbin Carroll set the Arizona Diamondbacks’ single-season record for triples with his 15th of the year during Tuesday’s 6-5 win over the Cleveland Guardians.
Once he roped a line drive into the right-field corner during the fourth inning, it was inevitable. Carroll had been in a three-way tie with Tony Womack (2000) and himself (2024) at 14 with ample time to set the record and extend it.
It took him no time to pad his lead, as he tripled again one inning later for No. 16.
“Pretty cool,” Carroll said of breaking the record. “Just a cool feather in the cap.”
Corbin Carroll is the first player with 15 triples in a season since Eddie Rosario in 2015. https://t.co/B6s0jUYbTQ
— MLB Stats (@MLBStats) August 20, 2025
His first triple came on the ninth pitch of an at-bat against right-hander Tanner Bibee. Carroll smoked a 3-2 changeup 104 mph down the right-field line, an area of Chase Field that could be nicknamed Corbin’s Corner at this point.
Once the ball rattled around down there, Cleveland had not shot to hold Carroll at second base.
Carroll came back up in the fifth inning, and he crushed a high fastball 110 mph down the right-field line. Had Guardians center fielder Angel Martinez not been positioned to retrieve the ball on a long bounce off the wall, Carroll would have scored.
“ I’m trying to run hard out of the box and make a decision a little bit before second base,” Carroll explained. “I think we’ve got a good ballpark for it. … I feel like when I hit second base, it’s kind of full-go. Most of the time when you hit a triple, it’s to right or right-center. You’re trying to watch it and judge it as you’re running. And then, once you hit second base, it’s just full gear.”
Corbin Carroll triples for the second time tonight!
It’s his 4th game with 2 triples this season. pic.twitter.com/0VSVmunB47
— MLB (@MLB) August 20, 2025
The All-Star has four multi-triple games this year, and no one else in Diamondbacks history had put together more than two such games in a single season.
Carl Crawford for the 2004 Tampa Bay Devil Rays had been the only major leaguer with four multi-triple games in a season since 1940.
Corbin Carroll has four games this season with multiple triples, tied for the most in a season in at least the last 125 seasons, with:
2004 Carl Crawford
1940 Barney McCosky
1931 Bill Terry
1912 Owen Wilson
1911 Larry Doyle
— Sarah Langs (@SlangsOnSports) August 20, 2025
“Nobody gets around the bases faster,” manager Torey Lovullo said. “He’s running 30 feet per second, cutting off edges, doing everything he’s supposed to do fundamentally to get to third base. … A ball in the gap is not a double. He’s thinking three. And it’s pretty remarkable. It’s fun to watch. I take my eyes off the ball and start watching him somewhere around first base.”
Carroll is also the first player with 15 triples in a season in a decade.
Eddie Rosario was the last to do so for the 2015 Minnesota Twins. The last player to record 16 triples in a season was Shane Victorino for the 2011 Philadelphia Phillies.
Carroll is only the 12th player ever to hit 16 triples with 27 or more home runs, a list that includes all-time greats such as Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Willie Mays, Hank Greenberg and Stan Musial, according to Stathead. Gehrig is the only one to have done so twice.
No player had produced at least 16 triples and 27 home runs since Jimmy Rollins for the 2007 Phillies, and he won the National League MVP that year.
“ I feel like I’ve given myself more opportunities,” Carroll said. “Had more extra-base hits overall.”
Carroll has 65 extra- base hits this year, which is fourth in MLB.
He has 112 hits overall, so 58% have gone for extra bases.
“He’s a massive cat out there,” Lovullo said. “He will tell you he’s gonna get better. I’ll go ahead and echo that, too. When he gets more experienced and learns himself a little bit more, he’s gonna be even better, which is very scary. I’m honored to be his manager.”
Diamondbacks snap losing streak
Arizona (61-66) ended its four-game losing streak with the comeback victory.
Jake McCarthy homered to jump ahead 1-0 in the third inning, as he has heated up at 10-for-his-last-21. The Guardians took a 4-2 lead in the fifth on a Jose Ramirez two-run shot off D-backs starter Eduardo Rodriguez, who was otherwise solid (6.2 innings, four earned runs and five hits).
Alek Thomas led off the bottom half with a triple of his own, scoring on a Geraldo Perdomo RBI single. Perdomo — who is batting .367 in August — scored on Carroll’s second triple.
Lourdes Gurriel Jr. delivered the go-ahead, two-run single in the seventh inning, a two-out knock to score Perdomo and Carroll after Carroll stole second base (17).
That second run came in handy, as the Guardians scored off D-backs reliever Andrew Hoffmann before Kyle Backhus cleaned up a bases-loaded jam in the eighth.
Andrew Saalfrank recorded the save with a 1-2-3 ninth inning.
“It’s good to get back in the win column after four grinding losses and some baseball games we were in and I felt quite frankly we should have been winning,” Lovullo said. “It was nice to go out and execute and win a one-run baseball game. Those seem to build a little bit of momentum.”
Health update
Reliever Juan Burgos was hit on the “pad of his right hand” by a comebacker on Tuesday, but the x-rays came back negative, Lovullo said.
Catcher Gabriel Moreno (finger fracture) started behind the plate for Triple-A Reno on Tuesday. Moreno caught a runner stealing and hit a home run. He will play again on Wednesday as he nears a return.
Reliever Ryan Thompson (scapular strain) threw 21 pitches to live hitters on Tuesday, and the club is determining his next steps.
Up next for Diamondbacks
The series wraps up on Wednesday at 12:40 p.m. MST, and Brandon Pfaadt will pitch for the Diamondbacks. Guardians southpaw Parker Messick will make his MLB debut on the bump.
Catch the game on 98.7 and the Arizona Sports app.
