Baseball 2009

[Grace]

Grace, Pam and everyone else that wants to play?

Trivia?

There are EIGHT ways for a player to get on base.

Name them!

Okay - off the top of my head without googling. And you said player, not batter.

1. Single
2. Walk
3. HBP
4. Sent in as a pinch runner
5. Fielder's choice
6. Reached on error

Now I have to come up with 2 more.

This is fun, Richard

[RICHARD]

Okay - off the top of my head without googling. And you said player, not batter.

1. Single
2. Walk
3. HBP
4. Sent in as a pinch runner
5. Fielder's choice
6. Reached on error

Now I have to come up with 2 more.

This is fun, Richard

Dude, You Are good!

About the wording, Would I mislead you?

I heard that on the radio this morning....I know one of the two-I forgot the other.


WOW, this is a topic that has some really good answers! When we get the 8 I'll post the site with the 'answers'?

[Pam]

Grace did better than I would have, but how about stealing a base? Or....did you just mean how to get on base, not including how to advance on base?

[RICHARD]

Grace did better than I would have, but how about stealing a base? Or....did you just mean how to get on base, not including how to advance on base?

Just how to get on base!

I found a site that listed as many as 23!

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On the back of old BB cards they had little cartoons that explained the rules.
As kids we used sit on the curb and try to stump each other.


I saw another question about fielders catching a fly ball and there are two ways that they are not allowed,

I think I knew one.....but no one had posted an answer.

[Pam]

It's all too complicated for me I guess. I have trouble understanding how the commentators can instantly tell the difference between a slider, change-up or fast ball. My feeble eyes can't see that as the ball goes whizzing by. I guess I am just a blissfully ignorant fan.

[Grace]

Pam, I can't tell one pitch from another most of the time. When there is a game from Fenway, broadcast by NESN, it is sometimes easier. Fenway is one of 3 parks (no, I don't know the other 2), where there is a camera straight out from home plate. So when they show the pitch from there, it's easy to tell if it's a ball or strike, if it curves or slides.

The pitchers I find amazing are the ones who pitch sidearm.

[Grace]

#7 - catcher drops the ball after strike 3, and batter gets to 1st base before the ball does.

That situation just happened in the Red Sox - Yankee game. But the batter didn't make it to 1st before the ball.