Yesterday went to watch the Giants game at SBC Park. We had seats at the lower level near third base (meaning every fowl shot that goes up in the air… sarr bachao!!!)
It was a game between Giants and Phillies. Giants were on a giant losing streak and Phillies were on a winning streak. The day before Giants had lost very nicely, so expectations were not too great (thats an understatetment).
Jason Schmidt started from Giants and the first pitch was a long hit (no home run, though). That was a sign of things to come. Plenty of home runs. Na maara tau Bonda nay naa maara. Even Jason Schmidt hit a first ball sole homerun (his second of the career), but Bonds… na ji. He came to bat with two bases loaded and got himself groundout. He was not offered a walk, and didn’t even get to first base.
Anyway, Giants won 4-3. So good game. It was over pretty quickly though… Probably about 2 hours 15 minutes.
Faisal yaar, its good that you enjoyed the game. Please dont take it the wrong way,but afte reading your synopsis of the game it is eveident that you are still learning about baseball. :)
Bases loaded means..there is a man on every base. When you have two guys on base, you identify the base such as runners on first and second or runners on first and third.
A hit is a hit, not along hit or a short hit.
Double Play is when you can get two outs in one play. For example, the batter can ground out and the runner can be thrown out on 2nd or 3rd base.
On a side not: Baseball is wrong, man with four balls cannot walk. :D
Winning by the bullpen....I will try. It is kind of complicated, but here it goes.
Starting pitcher can be the pitcher of record (won/loss) if he pitches at least 5 innings. Of course his team has to be ahead at the time he leaves the game.
Bullpen refers to releif pitchers who come in and pitch anywhere from 1/3rd of an inning to 3 innings.
So winning by the bullpnen will be when the relief pitcher comes in(and lets say the game is tied at 2-2) and shuts down the other team and his team scores to win the game. That particular releif pitcher will be the pitcher of record. This win can be chalked up as win by the bullpen.
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Starting pitcher can be the pitcher of record (won/loss) if he pitches at least 5 innings. Of course his team has to be ahead at the time he leaves the game.
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plus, he cannot leave enough men on base so as to enable the opposition to tie or take a lead with those men. eg, if team A is leading 2-1, and the pitcher pitching for team A gives up 2 hits, putting 2 men on base, he has put on the potential tying and leading runs on base. Now if hes taken out, and the relievers come in and end up allowing those 2 base runners to score, those 2 runs will be charged to the starting pitcher, not to the relievers...and even if team A wins, the starting pitcher will not get the win.
Plus he has to pitch 5 innings in order to get a decision only if its a 9 inning game. If the game goes into extra innings, he will not get a decision with 5 innings pitched.