ALDS Gamethread

DJnVa

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You might still have an out left if you hadn't given one away dumbass.
 
Not that I mind.
 

dynomite

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Dan to Theo to Ben said:
Not sure I've paced this much in a while. Maybe not since Derek Lowe was pitching for the Red Sox in the Bronx
 
For me nothing will ever top the Foulke vs. Tony Clark in the bottom of the 9th of Game 6.  I "watched" that AB from behind a couch, muttering obscenities, covering my face, and at times lying flat on the floor.
 

SumnerH

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loshjott said:
I thought the rule was you couldn't move into it. But you don't have to try and get out of the way.
Wrong. The batter gets first when:

(b) He is touched by a pitched ball which he is not attempting to hit unless (1) The ball is in the strike zone when it touches the batter, or (2) The batter makes no attempt to avoid being touched by the ball;
If the ball is in the strike zone when it touches the batter, it shall be called a strike, whether or not the batter tries to avoid the ball. If the ball is outside the strike zone when it touches the batter, it shall be called a ball if he makes no attempt to avoid being touched.
It's never called.
 

DennyDoyle'sBoil

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Sometimes your brain thinks the way to avoid getting hit is not to move, because you think the ball is going to miss you and you don't want to move into it.

Which is why they never call it. Sometimes the way to avoid being touched by the ball is to stand still. Once you acknowledge that, you can't use not moving as the criteria. So barring an obvious attempt to get hit by moving to the ball it's impossible to call.
 

LogansDad

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Man, that CODE RED GET LOUD CODE RED MAKE NOISE crap that they have going across the banner around the stadium is truly obnoxious.
 
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dynomite said:
Wow.  I imagine there are people in Kansas City fainting from exhaustion.
 
If Frasor gets his glove on that he probably knocks it away, everyone's safe.
they've been saving up their nitroglycerin scripts for 29 years, I haven't.