[Melas]

I don't follow baseball, so I don't understand this running up the score stuff. I would think, as a non-fan, that the goal of any sport is to score as many points as is possible while preventing your opponents from doing the same. Is that somehow not the case?

[MikefromOhio]

Sure it is, especially at the higher levels of the game. However, there is an etiquette to how and how not to do it.

Being walked or getting hits is one thing. Stealing bases when up a bunch or getting into rundowns so more runs can score it just running it up.