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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Back in the day when I played...........golf, it was always 19, we never missed the beer hole, I thought that was verboten!
Today, anyway. I tell my non-baseball loving friends that I see something new, something I have never seen before in every game I watch, and I watch a lot of baseball games. Today, the Tigers had a man on second, the ball hit to the new Yankee shortstop Gregorius. He makes a play on the man on second (unsuccessfully), who had strayed maybe a bit too far off the base. The second basement then pivoted and got the batter out at first. Never saw that before.
i say it’s not ten but i’m being guy centric. as kids, we didn’t switch out players. It’s when the guy who started it all bats again. we could have only 5 playing so the number ten is a response to maybe professional play.
Batting around and around.
Good one!!
Well, I guess it’s pronounced ‘round and ‘round.
Home Run?
I think we’re going to like Cespedes in Detroit.
Is not the phrase, in actual fact, "batting a round" (i.e. "batting ONE round")?
Regards,
What happens if the tenth player gets to the plate, but a runner is picked off for the third out so that tenth player doesn’t have an official at bat in the inning?
The correct answer is 9 or more
Nope...totally wrong! Ha!!
Period.
Foul!
Batting around refers to being so frustrated on the golf course that you pick up the ball and smash it as you would with a fungo bat, on all eighteen holes. This is distinct from playing around, which is what you did on the greens with your girlfriends in the middle of the night after you snuck into the country club.
Yes, “batting around the order” is when the first batter up in the inning bats again. It means the pitcher is getting roped, the hitters are having batting practice, the fans are seeing a show, the manager is chewing tobacco and the other team is humiliated. I’ve seen it numerous times when I played on a college team with seven players eventually making it to the pros. Batting around the order is super fun.
I admire Vin Scully, grew up listening to him, find his voice welcoming and Irish, and respect his Catholic faith. Cespedes was a monster for the A’s and will be huge for the Tigers. Your grand parents who were fans of Ty Cobb probably saw many excellent games at the Briggs Stadium in Detroit, the might stadium that lasted from 1912-1999.
It is foul pole. Everything outside is foul. However the pole is in fair territory
My Grandpa Stewart was listening to Harwell, I think to the day he died listening on WJR, clear channel AM from “The Golden Tower of the Fisher Building.”
The argument that because a ball hitting the pole is fair, it must be called the fair pole, always seemed spurious. By that logic, because a bird hitting the pole becomes a dead bird, it should be called the “dead bird pole”. Since it has always been called the “foul pole”, and there isn’t a compelling reason to change, then the traditional name is by definition correct.
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