Wow. A 13 pitch at bat. That is three walk off hits in two days. If you love baseball, this is some start to the Postseason–KSH.
Nationals Tie the Cardinals on a Walk Off Home Run by Jason Werth
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Is baseball still considered a sport? Roll Tide!
I used to be a baseball fan. What is a “walk-off” hit? Lead-off, I understand.
A walk off is where a person hits a home run and walks back to the dugout out of complete boredom. (Kidding…I don’t really know.). Roll Tide! (That is a football term that all of America knows for the college known as Alabama which is the best football team in the world that God has ever created.)
A ‘walk-off piece’ as originally coined referred to any hit or home run that ended the game and caused the losing pitcher to have to walk back to his dugout with head down in shame. In the last two and half decades, it has morphed and now refers to a hit or home run scored that immediately ends the game and allows the batter to walk off the field in jubilation.
Which is the top and bottom of an inning? Does it work from the bottom up, or the top down? My next question would be why will I not remember your answer tomorrow? Start and Stop of an inning seems to me the most logical response. I really wish that baseball could get their act together to the reality that most fans would desire and recognize. I have been horribly saddened for many years, as I have felt ripped off by the lovers of the terms trying to hold something over me that I have felt football trumps so easily in it’s verbal reality.
Vatican,
Why isn’t the phrase “A GAME ENDING HOMER”?
All this horrible baseball verbiage is why baseball is falling a constant last place to the reality of football fever. It is exactly why liberal Christianity is failing when placed against a Christianity that has a definition in understandable terms aimed towards the general population.
Did we hit the ball and walk off from our tiredness, or did we make a person feel bad about themselves in our exuberance, or did we end the game and laugh at the loser, or did we walk at our own pace because we are so great?
What is a “walk off” in VERY plain simple English and was a “touchdown” scored? Then…by who?
My wife just said that baseball terminology is not user friendly, and that, to me, explains all I need to know, about baseball. I love my wife!
Did the pitcher walk a batter with the bases loaded and a player on third base come home?
But where did walk off “home run” come from?
As I understand it, if a player hits a home run that immediately wins the game, the pitcher who threw him the ball walks off the field knowing that he lost his team the game. Anyway, my boys had the Devil’s own day in Washington today, as Sherman told Grant after Pittsburg Landing. But in Grant’s immortal reply, “Lick ’em tomorrow though.” 🙂
Thank you, Vatican Watcher and Christopher Johnson.
Gracious, Milton Finch. Every foreigner or any American female who didn’t grow up with a football fanatic father could tell you how tremendously confusing football rules and terminology are. For instance, the names of the baseball positions are self-evident (pitcher, catcher, first baseman, and so on). But who on earth is a nose guard? To say nothing of the various rules violations and the associated penalties. I know many of these things now, having lived four decades with a Green Bay Packers fan, but some of them still escape me.
A nose guard is a very large, usually the largest player on the field that plays on the defensive side. He is usually nose to nose with the man the hikes the ball. He is used to plug up a big section of the line and stop a run up the middle.
Mr. Finch, I suggest you read up at Wikipedia for more info on the history of the term ‘walk-off home run’ and so on. There is plenty of information in the article on who coined the term and why.
As for your analogy to liberal Christianity, that is not accurate. Note well that baseball has had more or less the same rules for over a hundred years while football is constantly evolving. Just this season in college, they’ve changed around the rules regarding on side kicks and where the offensive team starts on the field after a touchback. The only comparable rule changes in MLBaseball are the lowering of the pitcher’s mound and the designated hitter and both are now decades old.
If, as you suggest, baseball started to change its terminlogy to dumb down for casual fans as you suggest, baseball would fall into the same trap as liberal Christianity with its dumbing down of the Christian message to fit the times and we all know how that’s ended up.
Christopher #13, it’s funny you should mention that. I recited that same Grant quote on Sunday in reference to our Giants. Worked for us. I’m rooting for the Cards, too, but only because the Nats have cleaned our clock twice this season (Cards have been an even match). Hopefully we’ll see you Sunday.