MLB: Here’s a Perplexing Question to Bat Around

Wall Street Journal ^ | 4/20/2015 | JARED DIAMOND

[fhayek]

Liberal vs Conservative. Blue vs. Gray. All nonsense. THIS is what really is important. The correct answer, of course, is ten.

[Vendome]

Batting around refers to practice, where the coach bats balls around for players to field and work on their tactics.

[fhayek]

So you are going to be the fly in the ointment here, aren’t you?

[TBP]

“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!

[cripplecreek]

11 and 2

that is all.

[Vendome]

Right down the line...

[fhayek]

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.

[jjsheridan5]

A question that, when posed, confirms that someone has too much time on their hands.

[dfwgator]

World Series bound and pickin’ up steam.

[barmag25]

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.

[Mears]

This kind of thing drives me batty.

[fhayek]

Yanks played them tough. We will see.

[cripplecreek]

Baseball always has many threads that connect its tapestry back to the past.

It connects generations. My great grandparents were Tiger fans and my dad is a Tiger fan on down to me.

My great granddad was a Detroit kid in the days of Ty Cobb.

[Michael.SF.]

Nine

When one plays a round of golf do you play 18 or 19 holes?

[Mears]

18 in one inning would be quite tedious IMHO.

:-)

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[onedoug]

It’s impossible to have too much time on one’s hands when it comes to baseball.

[fhayek]

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.

[cripplecreek]

Sabathia is an ace and Simon is largely an unknown pitcher. The Yankees do seem to have an outstanding defense.

[jjsheridan5]

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”.

[cripplecreek]

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