To the guy who squeezed in a run with Harmon Killebrew
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I had a guy bunt...with two strikes...with 99 Mickey Mantle...in the top of first...first batter of game.
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@halfbutt said in To the guy who squeezed in a run with Harmon Killebrew:
@mitchhammond24 said in To the guy who squeezed in a run with Harmon Killebrew:
Imagine doing that in December omfg
I hate to come on butthurt after a loss, so my apologies there.
It was just hard to take, especially after Dude reached third on a botched throw to first for a two base error.
To be fair you came on here only half butthurt. If you were full butthurt then we'd have a problem.
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@Ch-76-1908 said in To the guy who squeezed in a run with Harmon Killebrew:
In RS it's pathetic. But in BR anything goes! And in events I'd probably do it if I was grinding it and thought it had a good chance of working. Time saved is a precious commodity sometimes!
I also have no issue with people doin it to me for the same reasons.However, the people that take the extra lead every pitch, the people that call time at the plate in EVERY 2 strike count (Yes, I experienced this very recently!), the practice swingers of years gone by, the bunt dancers, the habitual HR replayers, the ones that try to make u think a can of corn is a HR by sprinting towards the wall, and finally, the people who take the near maximum time between every pitch in a FUTILE attempt to fool the batter into thinking a PHAT one is coming right down the pipe via auto-pitch, did I cover everyone? Well........
They can all choke on a BBC!
Love,
Bill
Happy Holidays everyone.
Big black cat?
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@CalisGW said in To the guy who squeezed in a run with Harmon Killebrew:
Context matters. OP hasn’t stated what was game score, number of outs, innings and so on. Small ball was the main way to play baseball before the power explosion
It was 1-0, 2nd inning BR game. Two out.
Obviously his strategy paid off because he rattled my pitcher by scoring the run and then added on to take the lead and ultimately, win.
Half-butthurt. Good one!
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Legit bunt imo. Suicide squeeze from an unlikely source is pretty much how you do it. You see it here and there in the big leagues. Use to be more prevalent in the past.
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@mitchhammond24 said in To the guy who squeezed in a run with Harmon Killebrew:
@Ch-76-1908 said in To the guy who squeezed in a run with Harmon Killebrew:
In RS it's pathetic. But in BR anything goes! And in events I'd probably do it if I was grinding it and thought it had a good chance of working. Time saved is a precious commodity sometimes!
I also have no issue with people doin it to me for the same reasons.However, the people that take the extra lead every pitch, the people that call time at the plate in EVERY 2 strike count (Yes, I experienced this very recently!), the practice swingers of years gone by, the bunt dancers, the habitual HR replayers, the ones that try to make u think a can of corn is a HR by sprinting towards the wall, and finally, the people who take the near maximum time between every pitch in a FUTILE attempt to fool the batter into thinking a PHAT one is coming right down the pipe via auto-pitch, did I cover everyone? Well........
They can all choke on a BBC!
Love,
Bill
Happy Holidays everyone.
Big black cat?
Lol NO!!
BBC is the British Broadcasting network. largest TV network in the World and oldest.
I know that isnt what he means, but honestly that is all I think of when I see BBC.
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Ah yes, Harmon killebrew, a notable small ball player.
Lol it’s December “let me press triangle and have the game score me a run” -
December has nothing to do with it. By your logic, game shouldn’t even be accessible since baseball season is over.
Smh, critical thinking is your friend
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It’s the fact that the cheesers are still alive and well this late in the cycle. Bunting here and there is fine but in a situation like that, you’re telling your opponent that you don’t trust yourself enough to hit a runner in so you’re going to rely on the broken bunting in the game to do it for you
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@Exotic_Combs said in To the guy who squeezed in a run with Harmon Killebrew:
It’s the fact that the cheesers are still alive and well this late in the cycle. Bunting here and there is fine but in a situation like that, you’re telling your opponent that you don’t trust yourself enough to hit a runner in so you’re going to rely on the broken bunting in the game to do it for you
“Broken bunting “ is only referred to high bunt rating players. The guy had a good chance that it was going to be a bad bunt. He gambled and it paid off. Real baseball does it all the time . Either way, you are hopeless. Can’t enlighten a person incapable of growth.
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@CalisGW said in To the guy who squeezed in a run with Harmon Killebrew:
@Exotic_Combs said in To the guy who squeezed in a run with Harmon Killebrew:
It’s the fact that the cheesers are still alive and well this late in the cycle. Bunting here and there is fine but in a situation like that, you’re telling your opponent that you don’t trust yourself enough to hit a runner in so you’re going to rely on the broken bunting in the game to do it for you
“Broken bunting “ is only referred to high bunt rating players. The guy had a good chance that it was going to be a bad bunt. He gambled and it paid off. Real baseball does it all the time . Either way, you are hopeless. Can’t enlighten a person incapable of growth.
Hahaha
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I have no problem with bunting if the situation calls for it.
To me, down a run with two outs in the second inning of a BR game, squeezing with Killebrew to me, smacks of desperation. Keep in mind the guy only got to third base on account of my fielder throwing a ball into the stands which would have been the third out.
If the guy doesn’t think he can get a hit or score a run to tie in the third, sure, why not try a surprise bunt. I don’t think he is going to get better at the game that way, but whatever.
I just lost another BR game to a similar player who bunted to get on with Vizquel, stole second and third, then squeezed him in. I think he squeezed another run in the next inning.
Could I defend against this? Sure. I’m just playing a BR game to warm up though. I hardly care about winning and the guy obviously was not a good hitter.
I had the joy of throwing out two of his runners on a double steal though, which did make me smile, but then my time ran out as I went to get my takeout at the door.
To each their own. If you want to cheese, go ahead, but you’re not getting any better at hitting or playing the game like an actual baseball game.
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BR is 3 inning games. Basically 7 thru 9th innings. So he did it with 2 outs and with a unlikely hitter that caught you off guards. Stings? Yes but totally a baseball play, no matter how upset you are. The other situation? Yeah that’s just using the game mechanics to it’s fullest/weakest depending on how you look at it. I wouldn’t consider the second one playing like actual baseball game situation.
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@CalisGW said in To the guy who squeezed in a run with Harmon Killebrew:
BR is 3 inning games. Basically 7 thru 9th innings. So he did it with 2 outs and with a unlikely hitter that caught you off guards. Stings? Yes but totally a baseball play, no matter how upset you are. The other situation? Yeah that’s just using the game mechanics to it’s fullest/weakest depending on how you look at it. I wouldn’t consider the second one playing like actual baseball game situation.
I will say one last thing about it: it was 83 OVR gold Killebrew. He has 47 contact vs R, 35 bunt. If it were me, I’d have been swinging, based on that alone. If I wanted to bunt, I’d probably have pinch hit someone better at bunting.
You might argue that this would alert my opponent to my intentions. Personally, that makes baseball sense to me.
I highly doubt Killebrew would have been bunting in this situation in an actual game ever, let alone been able to out a perfect one down just past the pitcher’s mound in no man’s land, but in mlb the show 20. This is what you get.
Also, my bad, there was only one out. The throwing error was actually scored E6 on a lineout to center. The CF apparently airmailed the ball past the cutoff, or the shortstop was sleeping and the ball went into the dugout.
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So you made an error that got runner to third, but it’s his fault that runner scored? Sounds like the wrong one is getting the blame here. If someone makes an error, they’re a poor fielder. I’d force them to make a throw too.
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I’m hardly a poor fielder, and FFS this post was about bunting with Harmon effing Killebrew. Your post, Mr Gator, doesn’t really add much to the conversation.
I use buttons so there will be errors from time to time (and that is on me) but the game decided Joey Gallo could not hit the cutoff. Dude was not “testing my fielder’s arm”. He was cheesing a run because he could barely hit. Why else would anyone bunt with Killebrew (except Callis who thinks it was a smart baseball play).
I’m over it, guys.
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It was a smart play. If you can’t make accurate throws, then I’m testing your fielders. Accuracy is the easiest thing in the game. The run doesn’t score if you know how to play defense.
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Maybe it was a smart play. I mean the guy won, right?
My point was, and is, I would not bunt with Harmon Killebrew.
The outfielder’s arm didn’t come into it. It was a perfect bunt past the pitcher’s mound. Nobody fielded it before the run scored.
It wasn’t about testing my fielding. It was about scoring a run when you are struggling to hit.
If he wanted to test my arm, he would have tried to get the ball into the outfield to score on a sac fly.
THAT is what I would have done. If it failed, I would be fine with that, knowing I did a baseball thing in a baseball game.
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Yeah that’s a lame play. Honestly, nobody who’s good at the game bunts. If u have to rely on bunts, sorry, but ur just bad.
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@halfbutt said in To the guy who squeezed in a run with Harmon Killebrew:
Maybe it was a smart play. I mean the guy won, right?
My point was, and is, I would not bunt with Harmon Killebrew.
The outfielder’s arm didn’t come into it. It was a perfect bunt past the pitcher’s mound. Nobody fielded it before the run scored.
It wasn’t about testing my fielding. It was about scoring a run when you are struggling to hit.
If he wanted to test my arm, he would have tried to get the ball into the outfield to score on a sac fly.
THAT is what I would have done. If it failed, I would be fine with that, knowing I did a baseball thing in a baseball game.
Gold Kilabrew contacts is pretty bad. Out differential is huge. For 2 pages you let everyone assume it was 2 outs. Now you tell us one out? How do you become so pissed off to make a post, yet mess up the outs.
Despite your total lack of attention to details. With one out I would of gone power swing and try a sac fly to score the run. I still can see the suicidal squeeze as legitimate. Dunno your age, but in late 80’s to mid 90’s ( can’t comment on before that as I was too young ) there was a lot of sac bunting and sac flys. Almost every player had to know how to bunt. I remember bunt drills almost every practice.
You have to remember, diff age groups play this game and thus see baseball in a different light. Personally l, if a pitcher can’t go 7 innings consistently and a few complete games here and there , I consider them a candy [censored] snowflake. Yet statistics say it’s better to get then out by the 5th.
