Rare 'four-out play' helps Dodgers down Diamondbacks

by Titov on Apr 14, 2009 10:06 AM EDT Comment 17 comments

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/Rare-four-out-play-helps-Dodgers-down-Diamondb?urn=mlb,155380

This *is* rare, but not, like, y'know, finding an icthysaur in your fire pond or something. I remember Boswell writing about a 4-out play in a minor league game, and there was one described (OK, perhaps theoretically) in "So You Think You Know Baseball"-- a book from my childhood with various challenging brainteasers (some of which, I remember reading, stumped manager Ted Williams-- never a great man for hypotheticals, I guess).

Anyway, to fill out the minimum word rule here, allow me to mention that the comments after the Yahoo story linked above are perhaps the worst example I have seen this month of 12 year olds with too much time on their hands and access to the internet, a really unfortunate combination.

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1st!!!

LOLZ u r the sux0rz!!!

by blawk359 on Apr 14, 2009 10:25 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I am reporting this to your mother.

"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Churchill,1942-- a rebuilding year.

by Titov on Apr 14, 2009 3:11 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Sadly, fairly typical internet.

Bad Left Hook
Camden Chat

"If they cut my bald head open, they will find one big boxing glove. That's all I am. I live it." -- Marvin Hagler

by SC on Apr 14, 2009 10:44 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Anyone else realize

that the O’s got out 4 times in the top of the 7th last night? Not as rare as the four-out play, and not nearly as rare as finding an icthysaur in your fire pond, but still something that doesn’t happen too often. It also makes the box score look kind of goofy.

http://scores.espn.go.com/mlb/playbyplay?gameId=290413113&full=0&inning=7

by Dr. J on Apr 14, 2009 11:11 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I didn't know

that if you reached safely on a dropped third strike, it was still a K…

The stock market will never recover, our armies will never again be #1, and our children will drink filthy water for the rest of their lives - HST

by the fix is in on Apr 14, 2009 3:19 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

4th

It's 4 in the morning. Too much to drink. All the girls look hot. So, the Nationals are Jennifer Lopez to me. —Julian Tavarez

by zknower on Apr 14, 2009 12:03 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

This too.

"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Churchill,1942-- a rebuilding year.

by Titov on Apr 14, 2009 3:12 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

1ST!!!

Bad Left Hook
Camden Chat

"If they cut my bald head open, they will find one big boxing glove. That's all I am. I live it." -- Marvin Hagler

by SC on Apr 14, 2009 12:08 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

FAIL!

Me, FTW! Mwaaahhahahah……Twilight, bitches!

by blawk359 on Apr 14, 2009 1:53 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Especially this.

"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Churchill,1942-- a rebuilding year.

by Titov on Apr 14, 2009 3:12 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

And this.

"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Churchill,1942-- a rebuilding year.

by Titov on Apr 14, 2009 3:12 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

34th!!!!

by cdavis627 on Apr 14, 2009 12:09 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Buit not this.

"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Churchill,1942-- a rebuilding year.

by Titov on Apr 14, 2009 3:13 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm Matt Weiters

And therefore I’m ALWAYS first to post…

Even when I’m not

Jioe Flaacco, Hon!!! "He’s like a live JUGS machine."

by dayzd toe on Apr 14, 2009 12:11 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I can't tell if this book is a descendant of the one referenced above (although I'd call it unlikely) but still..

with an author described this way, it’s tough not to plug it:

So You Think You Know Baseball (Paperback)
by David Parks

http://www.amazon.com/So-You-Think-Know-Baseball/dp/0595203000

David Parks is an avid baseball fan. He grew up idolizing Brooks Robinson and the Baltimore Orioles, despite living in a Yankee-dominated neighborhood. He currently resides in Depew, NY with his wife, Patricia.

"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Churchill,1942-- a rebuilding year.

by Titov on Apr 14, 2009 3:31 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs