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The longest baseball game took 33 innings to win

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Re: The longest baseball game took 33 innings to win

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Post by chrisco255 »

projektfu wrote: post #37
chrisco255 wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hit ball within 90 degrees of home plate position and try to make it to as many bases as possible before being tagged out (by a player holding the ball) or forced out by a player holding the ball tagging a base that you are forced to travel to (due to a runner behind you having to advance or it being first base if you're the batter). When ball is in air and caught without touching the ground by opposing team, the bat…

There is a pitch clock in MLB since 2023. If the pitcher does not pitch within 15 seconds (or 20 if someone is on base) then a ball is automatically awarded. There is a penalty against batters also for delay of game. Before, the umpire could call this without an official timer but rarely did.

Fair, still no overall game clocks and this is not necessarily true of non-MLB games.

Re: The longest baseball game took 33 innings to win

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Post by whartung »

ta1243 wrote: post #28
ahmedfromtunis wrote: post #27

No matter how many videos or articles I've read, I still can't wrap my head around the rules of baseball. Is there any guide for us non-americans to help us gain enough grasp on the rules to, at least, understand the dynamics of the game? Learning the basic of (american) football was much easier. I'm not writing any treaties any time soon, but at least I can follow the games and enjoy the "craftsmanship" of the playe…

The rules aren't important. What's important is, it's linear. Every time I throw this ball, a hundred different things can happen in a game. He might swing and miss, he might hit it. The point is, you never know. You try to anticipate, set a strategy for all the possibilities as best you can, but in the end it comes down to throwing one pitch after another and seeing what happens. With each new consequence, the game…

There's a lot of truth here.

As they say "In baseball, anything can happen, but often doesn't". Oh boy, is that true.

Also, baseball is the most random of the major sports in the US. Consider the playoffs, statistically, any team getting into the playoffs has an equal chance of winning the World Series. It's just that dynamic.

The other interesting consideration about baseball is that when the ball is out of control, is when the scoring happens. This is in contrast to most every other sport where control of the ball is necessary to score.

If the ball is there bouncing around in the outfield, and runners are on base, guess what's happening.

It's also why single players do not dominate that game. The random nature, and all they can do is get the ball in play. After that, good luck predicting it.

I love the game. I love the anticipation of the pitch, how the infield basically freezes and gets ready. My heart skips whenever the ball is hit well. Single? Double? Home run? GRAND SLAM!? Oh, nope, foul.

Next pitch!

Play ball!

Re: The longest baseball game took 33 innings to win

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Post by clickety_clack »

ahmedfromtunis wrote: post #27

No matter how many videos or articles I've read, I still can't wrap my head around the rules of baseball. Is there any guide for us non-americans to help us gain enough grasp on the rules to, at least, understand the dynamics of the game? Learning the basic of (american) football was much easier. I'm not writing any treaties any time soon, but at least I can follow the games and enjoy the "craftsmanship" of the playe…

The summaries always seem to be either “it’s two guys throwing a ball to each other with another guy trying to bat it away with a stick” or “a line drive is out, except when someone pulls a Boston reverse. In that case the guy is still out, but his team (which previously was out) is now in, but only if the ball was originally spinning counter-clockwise. If the ball is spinning clockwise, the team that is out gets an out, and an innings which they can use at any time if they are playing at home, and only during a time out called by the home pitcher if playing away”. There is no in between.

Re: The longest baseball game took 33 innings to win

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Post by brudgers »

nkrisc wrote: post #4
brudgers wrote: post #3

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If you are doing that at a normal game, you've got a problem...it might be accepted behavior in your social circle, but you have problem.

That's quite a bit of alcohol to be drinking, but that alone does not make it a "problem". Ill-advised? Sure. But whether it's a "problem" depends on other factors - for example there's a big difference between drinking a can of 9% ABV beer per inning. Drinking too much alcohol one time does not a problem make.

A one time nine beers game would not normally be constructed as “one beer per inning.”

Because one-beer-per-inning is a drinking game that involves an intent to drink nine beers…and because beer sales typically cut off at the seventh inning, one -beer-per-inning requires buying multiple beers at a time, so it is unlikely to happen accidentally.

But to be clear, if you’re young nine beers probably won’t kill you (particularly if you train) and can youthful folly. But at 47 or 55 or 60 it is another story…not one that is usually a happy story.

Re: The longest baseball game took 33 innings to win

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Post by brudgers »

ofalkaed wrote: post #16
verdverm wrote: post #7

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Anyone who can drink a beer per inning is not doing it as a one time thing. If you drink infrequently, you won't be capable of doing this and remaining in a capacity becoming of public places with children around

You assume the game goes at a decent speed and finishes. Such games tend to end once people are too drunk to play.

Competitive drinking is a sport worthy of early retirement.

Re: The longest baseball game took 33 innings to win

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Post by geoffharcourt »

gwbas1c wrote: post #12

When I used to go to McCoy stadium in the 1990s, their were signs all over the stadium commemorating the game. They even had the score printed on cups.

The scoreboard running all the way around the circumference of the cup was awesome. My dad worked in RI for a few years as a kid and we went to a bunch of games at McCoy. I didn't realize until I was older how many long-time big leaguers appeared in that game!

Re: The longest baseball game took 33 innings to win

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Post by brudgers »

CivBase wrote: post #29
gwbas1c wrote: post #11

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"drinking a can of From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binge_drinking#Definitions > the term has been described in academic research to mean consuming five or more standard drinks (male), or four or more drinks (female),[12] over a two-hour period. > Drinking too much alcohol one time does not a problem make When I was in college, a lot of people would define alcoholism in their heads so that they didn't call themselv…

A single session of binge drinking does not an alcoholic make. An "alcoholic" is defined by their regular abuse of alcohol, not a single instance of binge drinking. Binge drinking can obviously be a symptom of alcoholism, but IMO it's not appropriate to declare people you don't know are alcoholics based on a comment about an theoretical instance of binge drinking.

A baseball season has a minimum of 162 games.

Even if you play one-beer-per-inning only 1 in 20 games (5% of the time) and only when watching your team, that’s more than once a month for the six month regular season.

Alcohol causes problems besides alcoholism.

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