2007-05-15 16:08:46 · 17 answers · asked by ruben m 1 in Sports ➔ Baseball
the hit or homerun that brings in the winning RBI in the bottom of the 9th inning
2007-05-15 16:11:37 · answer #1 · answered by jc 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
A walkoff refers to any play where the home team (because they have the bottom of the inning) gets ahead in the ninth inning or later. It's called a walkoff because the game is over at that point, the rest of the inning is not played. By the way, it doesn't have to be a hit. The only MLB game I have ever been to was Diamondbacks vs. Dodgers at Bank One Ballpark (now Chase Field) and the Diamondbacks won it after the Dodgers' pitcher issued a walk with the bases loaded (you could call it a walkoff walk!)
2007-05-16 01:05:17 · answer #2 · answered by D-Low 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When a player gets a hit or a home run that wins the game, the team that's in the field "walks off" because the game is over.
2007-05-16 13:53:15 · answer #3 · answered by groki68 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Hit or Homerun that drives in the game winning (ending) RBI in the bottom on the 9th...on.
2007-05-16 13:43:17 · answer #4 · answered by Asilentwitness27 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The player of the home team in the bottom of the last inning played hit a home run to win the game.
2007-05-16 02:40:18 · answer #5 · answered by Dave aka Spider Monkey 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't have to be a hit. A walk-off refers to any play that ends the game in the bottom of the 9th or subsequent inning. It refers to the fact that the defense simply walks off the field.
Yes, the defense. The runners and batter-runner must, by the rules, touch every appropriate base or the runs don't count. Ask Robin Ventura about that one.
Kenny Rogers ended the Mets post-season in 1999 by issuing a bases-loaded walk in the bottom of the 9th. And Todd Stottlemyre's first career shutout came when Jim Abbot issued a bases-loaded walk in the bottom of the ninth. Both were walk-off walks.
2007-05-15 23:21:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It means that in the bottom of the ninth or tenth; etc. that a player hits a homerun or an rbi to win the game.
2007-05-15 23:12:09 · answer #7 · answered by Yankee Pride 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The players homerun or hit ended the game. I believe the term came from someone at ESPN.
2007-05-15 23:11:59 · answer #8 · answered by Craig M 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The walk off occures in the 9th or extra inning to break a tie and win a game
2007-05-16 12:34:32 · answer #9 · answered by Lizbiz333 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
means ur team was tied or down a couple of runs in the bottom of the 9th and the guy up gets the hit and drives in enough runs to win the game in walk off fashion didnt have to play the whole game
2007-05-15 23:16:32 · answer #10 · answered by spuds_316 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋