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Is Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Trea Turner's slide the prettiest play in baseball?
ESPN ^ | 08/23/2022 | Jeff Passan

Posted on 08/24/2022 4:31:57 PM PDT by TexasKamaAina

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL play in Major League Baseball exists because its practitioner embraced a long-held axiom: Form follows function.

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To: TexasKamaAina

no more blocking home plate by the catcher.


41 posted on 08/24/2022 7:03:02 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2
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42 posted on 08/24/2022 7:06:37 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Alberta's Child

Ozzie was a great player. Trivia: The Cardinals’ current first base coach, “Stubby” Clap played AAA ball for the Memphis Redbirds. He would do the Ozzie backflip on the way out to second base.


43 posted on 08/24/2022 8:37:04 PM PDT by HeadOn (Love God. Lead your family. Be a man.)
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To: FoxInSocks
and then they instituted disagreeable rule changes.

DH rule in NL ruined it for me. Also, they need to put in the pitch clock. So the pitcher will throw the damn ball. The game takes too long now. Ideally it should take no longer than 2 and 1/2 hour.

44 posted on 08/24/2022 8:39:27 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: TexasKamaAina

It’s hard to keep a good man down!


45 posted on 08/24/2022 9:53:47 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: statered

Yep!


46 posted on 08/25/2022 2:50:51 AM PDT by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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