Posted on 04/20/2015 8:35:36 PM PDT by fhayek
The phrase “batting around” has existed in baseball as long as anybody can remember. It originated more than a century ago and remains a ubiquitous part of the sport’s lexicon. But what does it mean? Among baseball’s most ardent fans, players and officials, there is no consensus about how many hitters must reach the plate in an inning to constitute batting around. The debate has been raging for years in the sandlot baseball league of New York attorney Brian Mangan. Seeking to settle it, Mangan tweeted a question on March 13: “Batting around—is that when all 9 hitters bat, or does the first guy need to bat twice?”
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Batting around refers to practice, where the coach bats balls around for players to field and work on their tactics.
So you are going to be the fly in the ointment here, aren’t you?
“BAtting around” means all 9 hitters got to the plate in the same inning.
In one of those Old-Timers All-Star Gamns they used to hve at DC Stadium before the Nats arrived, I once saw teh AL team bat around TWICE in the same inning. 18 batters in one inning!
11 and 2
that is all.
Right down the line...
What prompted me to see this story was that I Googled ‘Vin Scully’, who, quite amazingly, is starting his 66th year broadcasting the Dodgers. Sixty-six years! Baseball always has many threads that connect its tapestry back to the past. Anyway, Vin Scully says ten, and that is good enough for me.
A question that, when posed, confirms that someone has too much time on their hands.
World Series bound and pickin’ up steam.
You can’t bat around until the guy who lead off the inning comes back to the plate. If only nine come to the plate then you really just had everybody hit that inning.
This kind of thing drives me batty.
Yanks played them tough. We will see.
When one plays a round of golf do you play 18 or 19 holes?
18 in one inning would be quite tedious IMHO.
:-)
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It’s impossible to have too much time on one’s hands when it comes to baseball.
I am a Yankee fan (yeah, I know). Anyway, I live in Buffalo. One of my fondest memories is picking up Tiger games across Lake Erie to listen to Ernie Harwell. They don’t make ‘em like that anymore.
Sabathia is an ace and Simon is largely an unknown pitcher. The Yankees do seem to have an outstanding defense.
Fair enough. I vividly remember heated arguments over whether it is “fair pole” or “foul pole”. The correct answer, by the way, is “foul pole”.
The voice of the turtle is heard in our land.
He still had that strong voice at the end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4rCyVbzpVk
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