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Touch 'em all.

No matter what it takes


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW0bb2wxH5Y

The players always keep reinforcing Yogi Berra's maxim, "It ain't over until it's over".

I like the comments talking about how the ump should be fired or that the other team didn't win the "right" way. I pitched baseball all the way through HS (wish I could have played at UAB). Our coach stressed that baseball is a game with no time limit. As long as you had one out left, you could always come back, no matter what the score. There are many crazy baseball rules, but one of the basic ones is that you must touch ALL of the bases for your run to count. This wasn't a weird balk rule that the team lost on. The player didn't touch home plate! Why do you think even the pros make a circle around home plate when a batter hits a walk off home run? It is so everyone in the world can see that they touch home plate. [/rant]

Yeah, those people are idiots.

I like something Casey Stengel once said, "Baseball is an orderly game in a disorderly world. If you swing and miss strike three, no lawyer in the world can get you off."

Touch 'em all=safe. Don't touch 'em all=out.

Every little kid knows it. Hell, the kid that didn't do it knew it. He just forgot in the heat of the moment. And in sports, as often in life, forgetting your fundamentals in the heat of the moment will generally sink you.

A lesson was learned here. That's one kid that'll never, ever fail to touch the plate again.

(06-15-2011 07:55 AM)Smaug Wrote:  I like something Casey Stengel once said, "Baseball is an orderly game in a disorderly world. If you swing and miss strike three, no lawyer in the world can get you off."

Unless, the ball hits the ground after you swing and miss strike three.

Got to love all the rules for baseball. I know that I had so many balks my first year pitching for high school.