page_title: Double play
section_title: All-time double play leaders by position
hierarchical_section_title: Double play / All-time double play leaders by position
caption_attribution_description: English: Professional baseball player and manager Mickey Vernon
context_page_description: In baseball, a double play is the act of making two outs during the same continuous play. The double play is defined in the Official Rules in the Definitions of Terms, and for the official scorer in Rule 9.11. Double plays can occur any time there is at least one baserunner and fewer than two outs.
  During the 2016 Major League Baseball regular season, the average for double plays completed by each team during the course of a 162-game season was 145 — nearly one per game by each team.
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caption: Mickey Vernon was part of 2044 double plays in his 20-year career.
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