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⌈ Secret Post #2515 ⌋

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[ER]

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[Pacific Rim]

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[Assassin's Creed 2]

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[El Goonish Shive]

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[Trigun]

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[Ellen Muth, Cara Delevingne, Doutzen Kroes, Denise Richards, Billie Piper]

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[Dodgeball]

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[football rps]

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10. http://rs954.pbsrc.com/albums/ae23/fandomsecretsaccount2/Mobile%20Uploads/Peter_zps7113afe9.png~320x480
[Peter is the Wolf; OP requested link for nudity]

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[bandslash]

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Okay, I'm a casual viewer. I get the gist of it, but I don't know a lot of specific rules- they seem arbitrary, afaik. Why, when a dude is batting, is a foul ball sometimes a strike and sometimes not a strike? Some at bats go on for ages with them just chipping away at pitches and the count not moving. There is something obvious I'm missing, right?

You can't strike out on foul balls. So you can hit 2 foul and get 2 strikes, but after that you're safe. Hitting lots of foul balls can also be a strategy to wear down the pitcher- to tire him out, to get him to try a different pitch that the hitter likes better, etc.

It should be noted if you hit the ball into foul territory and the catcher/infielder catches it, that's is a foul out. But strike 3 can't be foul.

Exactly this - a foul ball is always a strike but you can't strike out on one.

Also, if you bunt on strike 3, and it's foul, you're out (and it's considered a strike out IIRC). This is because, way back in the early days of baseball, there were guys who would just stay at the plate for a really long time bunting balls foul and wearing out pitchers, and everyone hated it. So they changed the rule.

Oh okay, you two have mostly cleared that up. Now this happened this postseason in one of Detroit's games, the one where whatshisface Sanchez et al. were throwing a nohitter and it wound up with just one hit in the end. They said Sanchez threw four strikeouts in one inning. How the heck do you reach base on a strikeout?

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Errr, not exactly. The catcher has to tag out the batter but only if he drops strike 3. So if the batter swing and misses on strike 3, but the catcher can't hang on to it, the batter can run to first and be safe - but it's still considered a strike-out on the pitcher's stats.

It's still really rare, because the catchers don't drop that many strike 3s, and if they do it's usually really easy to tag the guy out. But it does raise the possibility of someone striking out 4 batters via having one of them reach base.

I don't think there's any real reason for this rules-wise - just one of those weird hangovers from protobaseball, or something.

Okay, yeah, that's much clearer. I'm deleting to prevent further misinformation. I love this sport but it is seriously overcomplicated!

But the bizarre and overcomplicated rules are one of the best things about the sport! Seriously, I love that stuff. All the obscure rules situations and old-fasioned anachronisms. The quirks, basically. That's part of what makes the sport so lovable.

Baseball is like LOST- there's probably a reason somewhere, but headscratching is also part of the fun.

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