Posted on 04/20/2015 8:35:36 PM PDT by fhayek
The tenth batter has to come up (same guy twice in an inning) and you have batted around.
Don’t care much one way ot the other
It should be a foul pole. Because a chicken hitting the pole is still fowl, whether its dead or alive.
ROTFLMAO! !!
And I love on one of the top 10 courses in Calipornia
That’s funny!
Doesn’t matter. If the tenth batter reappears at the plate, they have batted around. Around refers to the tenth batter reappearing. What he does is unimportant.
Have the Cubs lost around now that they have not won the world series in 100 years. Or did they lose around when it was only 99 years. They won in 1908 so did they lose around in 2008 or 2009? And I think they will win this year. So am I all around crazy, or is being a cub fan crazy to start with.
That’s my take. Batting around, to me, happens when the lead off guy or his spot comes up to the plate again in the same inning.
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I say the first batter has to come up again, to close the circle as it were.
Suppose you’re just watching, but not counting, or maybe even you don’t know how many are in the batting order, for argument’s sake. Then you have to see a batter come up twice to know they “batted around”, and anyway, this is what I always understood.
It should rightfully be called a fair pole because if the ball hits the pole it is deemed inplay
It’s when the lead off batter comes up for the second time in an inning. Even if a pitch isn’t thrown to him (ie a pickoff). I read on deadspin that an early version of the game allowed all to bat in an inning. If the last batter hit a home run, the lead off would be allowed to bat again. It was termed “batting around”.
I see that many interpret it as 9 batters, including many experts. But I can’t say I understand why they would think that.
I think normally the expression “batting around” means that at least one player in the lineup bats twice in the same inning.
I'm thinking even the people that say it don't really believe it. It seems to make sense abstractly, but would they say, when the eighth batter gets on, or even retires with two outs, "Now they've batted around," just because the end of the lineup is coming up? Makes no sense.
You learn something new every day. I always thought it was “bat a round.”
We hate the city . . . but love the team. If it means we have to keep the city to keep the team, well . . . viva la Detroit!
As a sports town, Detroit really can’t be beat.
I don’t think there’s another city in the country with so much availability of major league sporting events in one place. The Redwings will be downtown next season with Tigers and Lions right next door. I suspect the Pistons will end up down there with them in a few years. There is INDY racing on Belle Isle and powerboat racing on the river.
Wrong sport. “Batting around” is what black NFL players do to their wives.
Still batted around.
The batter who began the inning went to the plate.
And think how much better the Lions will be without Ndamagong Suh!
Actually it was quite exciting.
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