...why does the catcher throws the ball towards 3rd base? They never show what happens afterwards on TV so I have no idea... and we dont have a local baseball team so I cant go to the games...
In baseball, after a pitcher gets a strike-out...
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i think it's justl ike a throw around to keep the players loose and keep them from just standing there and watching... that way they won't be all stunned if the next batter gets a hit... am i wrong?
Just to get everyone loosened up and ready. Since you stand there 90% of the time with your finger in your butt it's easy to loose your concentration and focus in baseball.
Are you on crack? Thats the only explanation I can think of on why you would ask such a silly question.
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i wonder that myself....
EDIT - so does it only go around the infield? or do they throw to the outfielders too? and is there a certain order they are supposed to throw in? i mean, it would be messed up if the 1b threw it to the ss while he wasn't looking and knocked his ass out.
EDIT - so does it only go around the infield? or do they throw to the outfielders too? and is there a certain order they are supposed to throw in? i mean, it would be messed up if the 1b threw it to the ss while he wasn't looking and knocked his ass out.
So do they throw it all around the in-field? Like everyone (except the outfielders) get a touch of the ball?
It's called "around the horn."
Why it is done, besides tradition, I don't know; all I can say is that they've been doing it forever, and continue to do so out of tradition.
The order differs based on the team, but is usually:
Catcher (duh) -> Third -> Second -> Short.
Rob
Why it is done, besides tradition, I don't know; all I can say is that they've been doing it forever, and continue to do so out of tradition.
The order differs based on the team, but is usually:
Catcher (duh) -> Third -> Second -> Short.
Rob
Originally posted by: Entity
It's called "around the horn."
Why it is done, besides tradition, I don't know; all I can say is that they've been doing it forever, and continue to do so out of tradition.
The order differs based on the team, but is usually:
Catcher (duh) -> Third -> Second -> Short.
Rob
Hmm... if I'm not mistaken isnt Short positioned between Second and Third? So I guess they dont throw in order from left to right...
Sometimes you go "aound the horn" to third, short, second, first, pitcher...others will go third, second, short, pitcher. It just depends on the team, and the guys. Just remember that they never do it with runners on base of course
Basically it's to keep the guys in the game and moving around. It depends on the team and what the guys wanna do. Sometimes it goes from the catcher-3rd-2nd baseman-shortstop-back to 3rd and then pitcher. Or it could be 3rd-shorstop-2nd baseman-3rd-pitcher. The first baseman is never in on it and the pitcher always gets the ball from the 3rd baseman. The guys don't go to a certain spot, but most of them move in towards the grass as they're doing it. As you get into higher level baseball, it becomes sort of an art and guys use it to show off their glove to hand skills. When done right, it looks real sweet. If another team sees that you can't perform this simple task, it kinda shows a sign of weakness among the defense. If done well, it gets into the opponents head. Any other questions???
"on a side note, why are strike-outs recorded and represented as "K's" instead of SO?"
"Henry Chadwick, one of the first newspaper journalists to take a literary interest in baseball, built upon a scoring technique devised by fellow New York journalist M. J. Kelly. "Chadwick created a minutely detailed scorecard so he would have a point of reference and recollection when he wrote his articles about the game," Cohen writes. He adds that Chadwick invented the modern boxscore.
Chadwick also invented the system we use to indicate fielders (pitcher=1, shortstop=6, right field=9, etc.), and the abbreviations we use for events (HR, HBP, BB, so on). Chadwick needed S for sacrifice, so he chose K for strikeout - K being the last letter of "struck," which was then in more common use than the term "strikeout."'
"Henry Chadwick, one of the first newspaper journalists to take a literary interest in baseball, built upon a scoring technique devised by fellow New York journalist M. J. Kelly. "Chadwick created a minutely detailed scorecard so he would have a point of reference and recollection when he wrote his articles about the game," Cohen writes. He adds that Chadwick invented the modern boxscore.
Chadwick also invented the system we use to indicate fielders (pitcher=1, shortstop=6, right field=9, etc.), and the abbreviations we use for events (HR, HBP, BB, so on). Chadwick needed S for sacrifice, so he chose K for strikeout - K being the last letter of "struck," which was then in more common use than the term "strikeout."'
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