sub{bottom:-0.25em;}/*!sc*/ body{margin:0;}/*!sc*/ @media (min-width:768px){.cHcHkC{font-size:1.44rem;max-height:32px;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:nowrap;display:block;-webkit-line-clamp:none;-webkit-box-orient:inline-axis;}.cHcHkC::before,.cHcHkC::after{display:none;}}/*!sc*/ .blLcNM .content .share-btn{-webkit-align-self:flex-end;-ms-flex-item-align:end;align-self:flex-end;margin-left:auto;min-width:32px;position:relative;top:-16px;}/*!sc*/ Though Kole Calhoun had swung through Verlanders 88-mph slider for strike three, the ball had dived into the dirt and bounced away from catcher Robinson Chirinos. .mHQYb .p-search-item__image-selector--active{background-color:#4c8cee;}/*!sc*/ attempts to advance to home base when the batter interferes with a play at home base, with less than two outs; or. Thats a good note for me! he said when informed. Two! In 1796, GutsMuths published the snappily titled "Spiele zur Uebung und Erholung des Krpers und Geistes fr die Jugend, ihre Erzieher und alle Freunde Unschuldiger Jugendfreuden," which translates to Games for the exercise and relaxation of the body and mind for the youth, their educators and all friends of innocent joys of youth.. @font-face{font-family:'proxima-nova';src:url('https://www.mlbstatic.com/mlb.com/fonts/proxima-nova-regular-italic.woff2') format('woff2'),url('https://www.mlbstatic.com/mlb.com/fonts/proxima-nova-regular-italic.woff') format('woff');font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-display:fallback;}/*!sc*/ Anything that contributes to more people getting on base (though it doesnt actually improve their on-base percentages, which is a whole other weird topic for another time) ought to be applauded even if the occasion, as Verlander can tell you, is occasionally awkward.\n\nThis blip in the rulebook, this curious canon, this precious little postcard from baseballs past has long since outlived the logic behind its creation. .hUHmCp > article > aside{display:none;}/*!sc*/ Anything that contributes to more people getting on base (though it doesnt actually improve their on-base percentages, which is a whole other weird topic for another time) ought to be applauded even if the occasion, as Verlander can tell you, is occasionally awkward. How did we get here, exactly? Fast forward half a century, and the New York Knickerbocker Base Ball Club put its rules to writing in 1845. data-styled.g158[id="newsletterOptinstyle__Message-sc-d7sh2p-3"]{content:"evwvnJ,"}/*!sc*/ .mHQYb header.mlb-header .header__nav-top__secondary-logos img{max-height:56px;max-width:none;}/*!sc*/ (2-32-1, 2) Jumping, hurdling, and leaping are all legal attempts to avoid a .blUWSx .share-button{position:absolute;top:0;left:0;background:none;border:none;padding:0;cursor:pointer;}/*!sc*/ No, according to an essay by Richard Hershberger of the Society for American Baseball Research, the rule traces back to Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths, a German teacher and physical education advocate. 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You make a pitch, you get the strike. .blUWSx .share-icon__close{width:18px;}/*!sc*/ .blUWSx .share-button__link--message-icon{width:10px;margin-right:5px;}/*!sc*/ @font-face{font-family:'proxima-nova';src:url('https://www.mlbstatic.com/mlb.com/fonts/proxima-nova-medium-it.woff2') format('woff2'),url('https://www.mlbstatic.com/mlb.com/fonts/proxima-nova-medium-it.woff') format('woff');font-weight:500;font-style:italic;font-display:fallback;}/*!sc*/ And on the third swing, the ball was considered in play, whether the batter made contact or not.\n\nIn the 1790s, said John Thorn, MLBs official historian, they had the right idea that strikeouts are boring.\n\nWith the ball in play even after a third swing and miss, the pitcher could retrieve it and throw it at the batter-turned-runner to try to get the out. any runner or retired runner interferes (2-21-1,2-30-3) in a way which obviously hinders an obvious double play; or. If the bat and ball accidentally come in contact with each other a second time while the batter is holding the bat in the batters box, it is a foul ball. .hYmwpY{display:block;}/*!sc*/ .mHQYb header.mlb-header .header__subnav__content,.mHQYb header.mlb-header .header__subnav--teams{padding:8px;}/*!sc*/ Not Out of the Baseline Since No Tag Attempt by the Fielder. 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If, in the judgment of the umpire, a runner including the batter-runner interferes in any way and prevents a double play anywhere, two shall be declared out (the runner who interfered and the other runner involved). It is great-great-great-grandfathered into the rulebook at this point. after hitting or bunting a ball, he intentionally contacts the ball with the bat a second time in fair or foul territory. 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If the runner at first base was making an attempt to steal second, is 1st base considered occupied or unoccupied, allowing the hitter to attempt to take first on a dropped call 3rd strike? data-styled.g148[id="Styles__FigureContainer-iefwtj-0"]{content:"fFwXhn,"}/*!sc*/ .mHQYb header.mlb-header .mlb-header--inner{margin:auto;max-width:none;position:relative;}/*!sc*/ Intentional walks will be permitted (meaning an automatic awarding of first base), four balls must be thrown for a walk to be awarded. When a play is being made on a runner or batter-runner, he establishes his baseline as directly between his position and the base toward which he is moving. If a declared Infield Fly falls untouched to , Force Play .mHQYb header.mlb-header{width:100%;font-family:'proxima-nova','mlb-primary','Helvetica Neue', 'Helvetica','Arial',sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:14px;font-weight:500;line-height:15px;color:#ffffff;}/*!sc*/ Upon contact, the batter attempts to run around and complete a circuit of bases while the fielders attempt to get him out. It gives you the chance to punch out four in an inning, Braves reliever Will Smith said with a smile. .mHQYb .mlb-header__login-menu__link{display:block;padding:10px;color:#081c3b;background-color:#f7f7f7;-webkit-text-decoration:none;text-decoration:none;}/*!sc*/ @media (min-width:1024px){.mHQYb .mlb-header__login-menu{right:32px;top:calc(56px - 4px);}.mHQYb .mlb-header[data-is-club] .mlb-header__login-menu{top:calc(112px - 4px);}}/*!sc*/ @media (min-width:768px){.ggWmAj{max-height:60px;padding:16px 32px 16px 24px;}}/*!sc*/ If a runner is hit by an infield fly when he is not touching his base, both he and the batter are out. .hHLkAw input::-ms-clear{display:none;}/*!sc*/ .mHQYb .p-search__input--icon--sm{top:0.5rem;right:0.5rem;}/*!sc*/ .XOHMa{bottom:0;left:0;position:absolute;right:0;top:0;}/*!sc*/ And then its Ugh!\n\nTheyve been dealing with it since they were kids, so the idea that a batter can reach first even when striking out is fully ingrained. But one must admire its persistence and its potential to breathe life into obsolete at-bats. Interference is called and the ball is dead immediately. If the batter fails to run, she can be called out when she enters the dugout. NOTE: Any runner, after reaching first base, who leaves the baseline heading for the dugout or his defensive position believing that there is no further play, shall be declared out if the umpire judges the act of the runner to be considered abandoning his efforts to run the bases. The story of this seemingly random rule begins not with Abner Doubleday or Henry Chadwick or Alexander Cartwright or any of the other stateside souls rightly, wrongly or debatably heralded as baseball pioneers. .mHQYb .p-search__form svg{width:16px !important;height:16px !important;}/*!sc*/ .epHHrr{text-align:center;max-width:100%;margin:0 auto;}/*!sc*/ small{font-size:80%;}/*!sc*/ I like that!. details{display:block;}/*!sc*/ This removed the aforementioned logical discrepancy, but it did not remove the dropped third strike rule itself. If there are two outs, the batter is out because of his interference and since he is the third out, the runner cannot score. .blLcNM .content .share-btn button{font-weight:600;}/*!sc*/ button:-moz-focusring,[type="button"]:-moz-focusring,[type="reset"]:-moz-focusring,[type="submit"]:-moz-focusring{outline:1px dotted ButtonText;}/*!sc*/ But batters could still occasionally get free trips to first. .mHQYb header.mlb-header .header__nav-top__nav-item--spotlight{background-color:#333333;}/*!sc*/ body.article{font-family:"proxima-nova","open Sans","Helvetica","Arial",sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;line-height:1.5;}/*!sc*/ Yet third strikes were still similar to fair balls in that the runner could advance if the ball went uncaught.\n\nThe rules, in other words, made no logical sense. .mHQYb header.mlb-header .header__nav-top .header__nav-top__button-menu--icon span:nth-child(1){top:0px;}/*!sc*/ @font-face{font-family:'proxima-nova';src:url('https://www.mlbstatic.com/mlb.com/fonts/proxima-nova-extrabold-italic.woff2') format('woff2'),url('https://www.mlbstatic.com/mlb.com/fonts/proxima-nova-extrabold-italic.woff') format('woff');font-style:italic;font-weight:800;font-display:fallback;}/*!sc*/ Except that the game that we love is not called bat ball or pitch ball; its called baseball. @media (max-width:1023px){.mHQYb header.mlb-header.mlb-header--side-nav-open .header__nav-side__nav-items{font-size:14px;}}/*!sc*/ 23. 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