what is the oddest act of basestealing in a game?

Question

i know somebody has stolen first and somebedy ran accross the field from first to third without touching 2nd. but what is the oddest act of basestealing. has anyone ever stolen two bases on one pitch?

Answer 1

The oddest I know of involved the legendary Marvelous Marvin Throneberry. Marv played for the 1962 Mets and came to epitomize them, although he was actually not a bad player. But Marv did weird things.

One day, Marv drew a walk. As he lead off from first he eyed the pitcher intently. Then, on the second pitch he was off!!! He dashed for second and slid in a clear foot ahead of the throw. Yet, the umpire thumbed "out"!! Why? Bases were full at the time!

Answer 2

The oddest act of basestealing I saw was by Lloyd McClendon of the Pirates. He stole first in that game, but I mean stealing in the literal sense. It was a few years ago, I think before McClendon was the Pirates' manager and when he was the first base coach. He argued a close play at first and the ump threw him out of the game. McClendon pulled first base out of the ground and stormed off the field with it.

Answer 3

The "steal of first" -- running back from second, in hopes of drawing a throw so the teammate on third can try to score -- is indeed illegal today, but long ago it was not. Germany Schaefer pulled off the play (successfully -- the runner scored) around 1908. Finding specific details is elusive, but the legend is too well established to doubt it happened.

Soon afterward, the rules were revised to put an end to that sort of admittedly clever but simply wrong behavior.

I'd love to see a triple steal.

I know Cobb pulled off the steal of second, third, home more than once. Legend has it one time he even announced his intentions to the defensive team, and they still couldn't nail him.

Answer 4

First of all there is no steal of first base. If a base runner tries to go backwards from third to second or second to first base he is out. Secondly, you can not fake a pitch because the rules will not allow a pitcher to deceive a runner. If a pitcher steps on the rubber without the ball and there are runners on base, it is a balk. The two best acts of base stealing I can think of would be the steal of second, third, and home by the same player in same inning, I believe Maury Wills did this with the Dodgers and possibly others. The most rare would be a triple steal where the bases are loaded and the runner on third base steals home, the runner on second base steals third, and the runner on first steals second all on the same play. I have heard of this happening in the minors but I don't believe it has ever occurred in MLB.

Answer 5

Found this in my old card collection. "The walking steal of home" 1906 Pirates vs. Cubs. Pirates load bases and batter had a 3-1 count. Ball is pitched and crosses the plate. The ump does not make any call and the runner at 3rd assumed it was ball 4. As he crossed the plate, the ump called "strike 2!"
He apparently had something caught in his throat and couldn't make the call. He allowed the run to score.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

There have been instances of two steals on the same pitch. It happened late this season, when Cincinnati's Brandon Phillips stole second and third on the same pitch. The Washington Nationals had employed a shift that put three infielders on the right side for left-handed hitter Adam Dunn. The third baseman was covering the whole left side of the infield from around the usual shortstop position, leaving nobody to cover third. Phillips stole second without a throw, and continued to the vacant third base, just beating the throw. Cincinnati trailed 7-0 at the time.

There was also one play on August 1, 1985 (that date loves weird stolen bases, huh?) on which St. Louis' Vince Coleman and Willie McGee combined for four stolen bases on one play. Quote from retrosheet.org boxscore (don't blame me for the misspellings in it):

"CARDINALS 1ST: Coleman singled; McGee walked [Coleman to second]; Coleman stole third and McGee stole second; Coleman stole home and McGee stole third; previous two double steals really all one continuous lay on which 4 SB were awarded. Chicago Tribune reports that play started as double steal, but Coleman overslid 3rd base. He leaped up and started for home. 'I knew I couldn't get back to the bag', Coleman said. 'I was still in no-man's land. So my reaction was to go to the next base.' The Cubs had him caught in a rundown, but he got out of the hotbox when either pitcer Scott Sanderson or first baseman Leon Durham left home plate unprotected. After conferring by phone with Seymouur Siwoff, the National League's chief statistician, [official score] [Randy] Minkoff awared each runner two stolen bases. 'He told me the rule book doesn't specifically cover that situation,' Minkoff said. 'He said you've seen one of the most unusual plays in baseball'"

For the record, nobody has ever technically stolen first base. It has never been possible to be credited with a stolen base for advancing (or retreating) to first base. However, early 20th-century player Germany Schaefer was known for retreating to first base with a runner on third to cause confusion on the field and set up a true double-steal of second and home on the next pitch. A rule outlawing this practice is now on the books. Still, this type of reverse baserunning has never actually been credited as a stolen base. Furthermore, advancing to first on an uncaught third strike is also not a stolen base.

Answer 8

In the movie "The bad news bears" the second basemen had the ball hidden in his glove, and the pitcher was faking a pitch.
The runner led off and was tagged out.

Answer 9

thats easy steeling home.