Attention Baseball Fans

[CochiseCowbell]

May I present, "Skunk in the outfield."

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/...w-most-epic-trick-play-history-broke-baseball

Grab a drink & settle in for this one.

 

[PineGroveBully]

Wow that was, something

took me 3 tries of starting and stopping to get thru it all. When it was describing the phantom pickoff throw I was thinking this sounds like bowers play on LBL to get Junior Griffey out, then of course it talked about the movie. I knew rule that you were never out of the baseline, that you could literally on your way to second go run around the CFer and until a play was attempted on the runner it was legal but I'd never thought of exploiting the rule that way. Not sure how I feel about using it in that big of a game.

Reminds me of a basketball play I saw once. An underdog team had managed to hang within a point in the waning seconds and had an inbound play down one with like 3 secs left. The offense is set up in a box, 2 players on the low block and one outside the lane at each end of the FT line. Ref hands inbounder the ball. One of the guys on the ft line sprints to the corner and gets down on his knees barking like a dog. All 5 defenders are watching him like WTF when the inbounder tosses it to the guy on one of the blocks and he scores easily with one sec left. The favorite takes a long shot at the buzzer but lost by 1 to a barking dog. It was in high school in the Midwest somewhere.

 

[CochiseCowbell]

Yeah, it's a bit lengthy of a read, but I thought it was fascinating. The diagrams in motion were hilarious; as was the radio call off the play. Maybe, I'm just a baseball nerd.