(1) has any picture ever in intentionally walked in a run with the bases loaded to get to the other teams picture to give up 1 run instead of maybe 3 or 4 ? (2) has there ever been a triple steal with the bases loaded , man on 3rd steals home , man on 2nd steals 3rd , man on 1st steals 2nd ?
2007-11-07 14:26:35 · 10 answers · asked by SteelersJourney 3 in Sports ➔ Baseball
There has only been one bases loaded intentional walk (the legendary BLIBB!) in the last 50 years, and it was served up to Barry Bonds -- in 1998, before he became BONDS!!!
He really has been that good for that long. The haters hate him even more because of this.
Bonds' Giants were hosting the Arizona Diamondbacks on 28-May-1998. Going into the bottom of the ninth, the Snakes were leading 8-5; Bonds was due to bat seventh. However, the Giants managed to wrangle three walks and a single along with a groundout and a strikeout, and had scored one. So it was 8-6, two outs, bases loaded, and Barry, mighty Barry, advancing to the plate.
Arizona manager Buck Showalter was no fool; one of the best hitters in the game was one swing away from closing the gap, tying it, or winning the game. He called for the intentional walk, giving up the run, and taking a chance on the next batter with a one-run margin.
Catcher Brent Mayne lined out to RF to end the game. Diamondbacks 8 - Giants 7.
Bonds, who hadn't even started, finished with two walks, one RBI, and a signature moment in baseball history.
It wasn't to get to the pitcher, and it worked out for the Diamondbacks, but that's the only BLIBB seen in the majors for several and many decades. There are a tiny few more deep in the mists of time.
Box: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1998/B05280SFN1998.htm
2007-11-07 15:03:04 · answer #1 · answered by Chipmaker Authentic 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
First of all (sorry I have to point this out) it isn't a picture, it is a pitcher. Second, I'm sure, if a very good batter comes up to bat, potentially hitting a grand slam, that they intentionally walked him, but that doesn't happen very often because if you intentionally walk someone, you still have a potential of three or four runs being batted in. As for the second one, (if I understand your question right) that is almost impossible to happen (nothing is impossible so that's why I put in the almost for some of you doubting me). So I doubt that it has. If you know baseball well enough, it just makes sense that that could never happen.
Edit: Wow a triple steal has happened? That's amazing. But still, it doesn't happen very often.
Edit: AJ, you don't seem to know what stealing a base means. It means getting onto a base without any assistance. In other words, someone getting walked, or hitting the ball is an assistance. That isn't stealing. As for a strikeout, if that isn't the third out, yes everybody could steal if they wanted to, and if they all got to base safely if the bases were loaded and someone of course got home, then that would be a triple steal. But that is almost impossible for all the base runners to steal because the catcher would get it to the bases before they stole, but none of them could steal unless the guy on third stole home, and the guy on third would not attempt to steal with the ball at the plate like that. Simple baseball knowledge.
2007-11-07 14:33:33 · answer #2 · answered by St. Louis Cardinals Fan 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
For the first one, it actually happened like 6 or so years ago when the D-backs were facing the Giants and Barry Bonds came up to bat with the bases loaded in the ninth inning with his team down one or two runs, so the D-backs manager at that time walked Bonds and forced in a run, and as a result the D-backs were able to win the game because the batter after Bonds couldn't do anything. I know its not the pitcher but i think that just last time its happened in a while.
2007-11-07 14:41:37 · answer #3 · answered by cole hamels is the man 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To answer your 1ST question: Sort of.
I don't know if a team ever intentionally walked a batter, with bases loaded, to get to the other team's pitcher, and BTW it's pitcher not picture LOL, but there have been times where a pitcher intentionally walked Babe Ruth with bases loaded, just not to face him, and took their chances with whomever batted after him, not in 1927 though. I do not know if there were other batters intentionally walked with bases loaded though.
Your 2ND question, I have no idea.
2007-11-08 02:09:03 · answer #4 · answered by pedrooch 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
question #one million – Baseball rule 6.05: A batter is out while -- (a) His ordinary or foul fly ball (different than a undesirable tip) is legally caught with the aid of a fielder. question #2 – baseball savvy says to pass halfway un til you realize regardless of if the ball is to be caught or no longer. in any different case, run with 2 outs by using fact if the ball is caught, they could no longer make FOUIR outs. (The runner has no longer something to lose.)
2016-10-15 10:34:26 · answer #5 · answered by poore 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ANY PITCHER-- I know your probably talking about Professional--But as an KSHAA Baseball Umpire myself with 33 years of Umpiring at all levels I have saw both of these occurences happen in games Ive Umped !!!!!
2007-11-07 14:52:31 · answer #6 · answered by Ed P 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
well i dont know about ther 1st one but to #2 yes when there are bases loaded full count 2 outs everyone steals because either they strike out, walk (bases also walk) or get a hit (faster to get to home)
2007-11-07 14:30:18 · answer #7 · answered by AJ 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
it has happened before. you can go to wikipedia and look up triple steal and its there. it has not happened anytime recently but it has happened in MLB history.
2007-11-07 14:30:01 · answer #8 · answered by Fighting Racoon 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
i dought it
2007-11-07 14:29:59 · answer #9 · answered by Ski Doo Rocks 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
no and no
2007-11-07 14:30:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋