Posted on 08/04/2013 9:27:49 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
I can see it becoming more than a theoretical exercise - when Carney speaks the truth during a press conference...
Dead catcher?
Everything within roughly a mile of the park is leveled, and a firestorm engulfs the surrounding city. The baseball diamond is now a sizable crater, centered a few hundred feet behind the former location of the backstop.
But the batter gets to take first.
Sacrificial fly?
“A careful reading of official Major League Baseball Rule 6.08(b) suggests that in this situation, the batter would be considered “hit by pitch”, and would be eligible to advance to first base.”
Of course first base has been vaporized, as well as the rest of the field.
I stumbled across the What If site a while back.
Very cool mental jumping jacks.
Or suicide squeeze.
Are you watching the Tigers game today? I’m dreading it. Maybe the Sox could find this sort of a pitcher.
Base-on-Bosons
Yeah I’ll be watching. Tigers have done welll considering the fact that Cabrera has only played 4 partial games of the last 10 and the Tigers have a 7 game winning streak going on.
Iglesias has been a nice surprise. They said he was a great defender but slumping at bat when he was traded from Boston but in his first game in Detroit he drove in a run and yesterday he hit a home run and almost hit a second home run.
Also cool
What if there was a robot apocalypse? How long would humanity last?
If it were a Marlins game in Miami, would anyone notice?
Pitch #2 should be a changeup going 70% the speed of light. The batter would never be able to hold up after he gets a look at that first heater. Pitch #3 should just be a 62mph knuckleball. Batter strikes out on three pitches, swinging at the last one 12,000 times before it gets to the plate.
Freegards
Does the infield fly rule still apply?
I believe the batter, catcher and umpire would be instantaneously turned into a radioactive puddle of goo so a pinch hitter (from another state) would be awarded first. But even before that occurs I believe the game would be postponed on account of nuclear winter in the immediate area of the game.
So is it a strike or not?
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