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ipitch
11-23-2007, 09:20 AM
The pitcher is on the mound, and the potential winning run is on second base. No other runners are on base. Within 15 seconds, the runner scores, and the pitcher on the mound is given the win. Explain how this actually happened in a MLB game.
brett
11-23-2007, 09:50 AM
The pitcher overthrows third in an appeal attempt on the runner who had scored previously, the runner from second comes around on the overthrow and scores, then the appeal is made at third nullifying the prior runner's score (and I think that the runner from second would be out for passing a runner on the bases)
Anywhere remotely close???
ipitch
11-23-2007, 10:01 AM
The pitcher overthrows third in an appeal attempt on the runner who had scored previously, the runner from second comes around on the overthrow and scores, then the appeal is made at third nullifying the prior runner's score (and I think that the runner from second would be out for passing a runner on the bases)
Anywhere remotely close???
No, I'm sorry, you're not close. There is no appeal play, or anything like that.
Gee Walker
11-23-2007, 05:55 PM
The runner scored. Fans mobbed the field and refused to leave, and the game was forfeited - since we weren't in the ninth inning.
Brian McKenna
11-23-2007, 06:05 PM
That's a good point - how are wins/loses distributed to pitchers during forfeits? What if play hadn't even started yet?
ipitch
11-23-2007, 06:23 PM
The runner scored. Fans mobbed the field and refused to leave, and the game was forfeited - since we weren't in the ninth inning.
No. Remember, the runner is the potential winning run (not just the go-ahead run).
brett
11-23-2007, 07:39 PM
The pitcher is on the mound, and the potential winning run is on second base. No other runners are on base. Within 15 seconds, the runner scores, and the pitcher on the mound is given the win. Explain how this actually happened in a MLB game.
Did the runner actually get credit for a run scored?
brett
11-23-2007, 07:41 PM
The pitcher is on the mound, and the potential winning run is on second base. No other runners are on base. Within 15 seconds, the runner scores, and the pitcher on the mound is given the win. Explain how this actually happened in a MLB game.
The runner scored and the game was then called due to rain back to the previous inning.
EdTarbusz
11-23-2007, 07:55 PM
The runner scored and the game was then called due to rain back to the previous inning.
Wouldn't that have made the game a tie?
EdTarbusz
11-23-2007, 07:57 PM
This could be the continuation of a game from an earlier date, and the pitcher had pitched for the hitting team earlier in the season.
brett
11-23-2007, 08:03 PM
Wouldn't that have made the game a tie?
Not necessarily. If the pitcher's team had been ahead 5-4 at the end of the 7th, and then in the bottom of the 8th he had given up one run prior to the runner scoring from second. We would go back to the score at the end of the 7th if the 8th was never completed.
EdTarbusz
11-23-2007, 08:06 PM
Not necessarily. If the pitcher's team had been ahead 5-4 at the end of the 7th, and then in the bottom of the 8th he had given up one run prior to the runner scoring from second. We would go back to the score at the end of the 7th if the 8th was never completed.
You're right about that. I didn't consider that a run may have scored earlier in the inning.
ipitch
11-23-2007, 08:51 PM
No one is right so far. The game was tied when the runner was on 2nd base, and when he scored his run DID count. The game went at least 9 innings, there were no appeals, there was no forfeit, and the entire game was played all in one day.
Old Sweater
11-24-2007, 06:39 AM
No one is right so far. The game was tied when the runner was on 2nd base, and when he scored his run DID count. The game went at least 9 innings, there were no appeals, there was no forfeit, and the entire game was played all in one day.
Was it just a case of the pitcher vulturing a win?
Utter Chaos
11-24-2007, 06:51 AM
The pitcher is on the mound, and the potential winning run is on second base. No other runners are on base. Within 15 seconds, the runner scores, and the pitcher on the mound is given the win. Explain how this actually happened in a MLB game.
The runner on second doesn't actually score a run but he does score when Morgana the Kissing Bandit runs out on the field. He is off base when he's "scoring" and the pitcher throws to the shortstop who tags him out to end the game.
ipitch
11-24-2007, 09:14 AM
Was it just a case of the pitcher vulturing a win?
No, the pitcher deserved the win.
ipitch
11-24-2007, 09:30 AM
The runner on second doesn't actually score a run but he does score when Morgana the Kissing Bandit runs out on the field. He is off base when he's "scoring" and the pitcher throws to the shortstop who tags him out to end the game.
:) That's probably the best guess so far. You are definitely thinking "outside of the box", and that is pretty much required to answer this question.
Here's another hint...
There's a picture on the internet that shows 3 players on the field just seconds before the game ended. If I showed you this picture, you'd know the answer. One player is celebrating, one player is somewhere where you wouldn't expect him to be, and one is probably very dejected.
brett
11-24-2007, 09:39 AM
The pitcher is on the mound, and the potential winning run is on second base. No other runners are on base. Within 15 seconds, the runner scores, and the pitcher on the mound is given the win. Explain how this actually happened in a MLB game.
The pitcher "on the mound" was on the offensive team and was walking to the dugout across the infield? Perhaps he had been thrown out at first and the first baseman fired an overthrow to second allowing the runner to score.
If that is the answer, I will pray for your soul.
ipitch
11-24-2007, 09:45 AM
The pitcher "on the mound" was on the offensive team and was walking to the dugout across the infield? Perhaps he had been thrown out at first and the first baseman fired an overthrow to second allowing the runner to score.
If that is the answer, I will pray for your soul.
No, but you're getting closer. The pitcher was not merely walking across the mound.
brett
11-24-2007, 10:08 AM
No, but you're getting closer. The pitcher was not merely walking across the mound.
Had the pitcher charged the mound from the batter's box?
ipitch
11-24-2007, 10:30 AM
Had the pitcher charged the mound from the batter's box?
No.
Another hint: The hero of the game did not play the next season.
Brooklyn
11-27-2007, 06:43 AM
No.
Another hint: The hero of the game did not play the next season.
what was the answer to this?
ipitch
11-27-2007, 09:15 AM
what was the answer to this?
I'd rather not give away the answer, but I'll give some more hints.
Hints:
-Bleeping
-pinstripes
EJetson
11-27-2007, 11:43 AM
The pitcher is on the mound, and the potential winning run is on second base. No other runners are on base. Within 15 seconds, the runner scores, and the pitcher on the mound is given the win. Explain how this actually happened in a MLB game.
Assuming that the first pitcher on the mound is not the same as the second pitcher on the mound in your statement above, I'm guessing that something like this could happen occasionally.
Batter gets a double to drive in the winning run. Winning pitcher runs out of the dugout celebrating and meets the batter on the mound as he is coming back from second base.
I'd rather not give away the answer, but I'll give some more hints.
Hints:
-Bleeping
-pinstripes
I think you should give away the answer as no one has figured it out ;)
Roger Clemens
11-30-2007, 09:52 PM
Maria Playboy Spread (http://wrestlingclique.com/pro-wrestling-hotties/54946-maria-playboy-spread-new-post.html)
ipitch
12-01-2007, 10:34 AM
I think you should give away the answer as no one has figured it out ;)
I think you're right. The longer I wait, the more mad everyone will be. :cap:
2003 ALCS, game 7, bottom of the 11th. Aaron Boone hits a walk-off HR, and Mariano Rivera (who is still in the game) runs from the dugout and falls to his knees on the mound as Tim Wakefield walks to his dugout. Rivera is on the mound as Aaron Boone (the potential winning run) is on second base (but only momentarily of course, since he's rounding the bases). Boone is technically a potential winning run since he hasn't scored yet. :) Within 15 seconds, Boone scores, and Rivera is credited with the win. Rivera later explained that he went to the mound to thank God for helping him and the team win. See, it wasn't that hard, right? :hide:
Here's a picture taken just after Boone touched 2nd base, with Rivera in the background.
KingSwisher
12-02-2007, 07:29 AM
What a shame.
EJetson
12-03-2007, 08:56 AM
Assuming that the first pitcher on the mound is not the same as the second pitcher on the mound in your statement above, I'm guessing that something like this could happen occasionally.
Batter gets a double to drive in the winning run. Winning pitcher runs out of the dugout celebrating and meets the batter on the mound as he is coming back from second base.
So, this is pretty much the same thing.
Old Sweater
12-05-2007, 07:23 AM
All this time for that? Big difference between a runner on 2nd and a runner rounding 2nd.
Heck, the ground crew is on the mound before Manny finishes a walkoff HR.
ipitch
12-05-2007, 10:10 AM
All this time for that? Big difference between a runner on 2nd and a runner rounding 2nd.
The winning run was ON 2nd base, was he not? I never said he was there for long. It was obviously a trick question.
Old Sweater
12-06-2007, 05:45 AM
The winning run was ON 2nd base, was he not? I never said he was there for long. It was obviously a trick question.
He was rounding 2nd. Being on 2nd is being stationed there. I know it was a trick question but have you ever heard an announcer say he is on 1st, he is on 2nd, he is on 3rd, he just may go all the way, HR!!!!
EdTarbusz
12-06-2007, 08:42 AM
I can't believe that I even responded to this.
The Fifties in my Sixties
12-06-2007, 08:44 AM
Do not have it figured out, but I am guessing that somehow the game is suspended, and the pitcher is traded to the other team?.
dgarza
12-06-2007, 09:50 AM
He was rounding 2nd. Being on 2nd is being stationed there. I know it was a trick question but have you ever heard an announcer say he is on 1st, he is on 2nd, he is on 3rd, he just may go all the way, HR!!!!I guess he could have stopped at 2nd, pondered his feat for a minute, then continued on this way.