Hanrahan's win provides one of those great baseball brain teasers

The completion of the suspended Nationals-Astros game Thursday night can be the subject of those baseball brain teasers about baseball rules, like the one about how a team can hit three triples and three singles in one inning and not score.

Joel Hanrahan picked up his first victory of the season and wasn't even in the same city. He got a win when a guy he was traded for scored the winning run.

This actually happened on Thursday in Houston, when a game that started in Washington on May 5 was tied 10-10 and delayed by rain with Hanrahan as the pitcher of record for the Nationals. The game was suspended, and resumed in Houston, with the Nationals as the home team.

Hanrahan was traded by the Nationals on June 30 to the Pittsburgh Pirates as part of a deal for Nyjer Morgan, who scored the winning run for the Nationals on Thursday as a pinch-runner in the 11th inning. The Pirates were off on Thursday, so Hanrahan picked up the win on a day he didn't even play.

Got all that? The Washington Post found some more oddities:

The Washington Nationals today completed a game that lasted 11 innings and took precisely 65 days, five hours and 40 minutes. Between the first pitch and the winning run, the Nationals replaced six members of their bullpen, traded their pitcher of record (Joel Hanrahan), fired their pitching coach, sent their starting pitcher to the disabled list, activated him from the disabled list, and demoted Elijah Dukes while he stood on first base.

Fun stuff. And that first brain teaser, in case you're wondering?

First batter hits a triple, and is thrown out trying to stretch it into home run. Second batter hits a triple and is also thrown out at home. Third batter hits a triple.

Next two batters hit infield singles, runner stays at third. Next batter hits a runner with the batted ball. It's ruled a base hit, but the runner is out.

Now I don't know anybody who has actually seen that happen, but you never know what you'll see at a baseball game.