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A catcher attempts to block a baserunner from reaching home plate. In baseball, blocking the plate is a technique performed by a catcher to prevent a runner from scoring. The act of blocking the plate accounted for most of the physical contact in Major League Baseball prior to the 2014 season, when it was outlawed except when the catcher already has possession of the ball.
To blow a game is to lose it after having the lead. "We had the game in hand and we blew it." To blow a pitch ("by" a batter) is to throw one so fast the batter is unable to keep up (with it). To blow a save is to lose a lead or the game after coming into the game in a "save situation". This has a technical meaning in baseball statistics.
The teams were tied 1–1 when the game was called due to darkness at Shibe Park; the Tigers' Les Mueller had pitched a record 19 2 ⁄ 3 innings, giving up one run before being taken out in the 20th inning. The longest game to end in a scoreless tie was a National League contest between the Cincinnati Reds and Brooklyn Dodgers on September 11 ...
Essentially, a creep back toward blocking the plate that took advantage of the safety created by the collision rule. Some teams noticed, too, and called it out to the commissioner’s office.
The call was changed after a lengthy replay review and Sabol was ruled safe when catcher Gary Sánchez was cited for blocking the plate. Overturned outs are prompting confusion, frustration over ...
The rough-and-tumble days of Pete Rose bowling over Ray Fosse at home plate of the 1970 All-Star Game are long gone. “It's not a football game,” D-backs manager Torey Lovullo said. Two MLB ...
The play is both a strikeout and a fielder's choice. If the pitcher must run to home plate to field a throw of a third-strike pitch that a catcher first fumbled and catches the ball and touches home plate before the runner from third base reaches home plate safely, then the play is a fielder's choice (2-1) as well as a strikeout.
HOOVER, Ala. — South Carolina baseball was awarded a 10th-inning run against LSU on Saturday in the SEC Tournament semifinals due to a simultaneous balk and catcher’s interference call, an SEC ...