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Most Exciting Play In Baseball
Topic Started: Jun 16 2006, 06:52 PM (244 Views)
Rick Zimmer
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I have just had an debate with my son about what is the most exciting play in baseball.

He claims it is the triple play. He is wrong, of course.

I claim it is the long throw from right field to home plate when a runner is trying to score. I, of course, am right.

What say any of you who are baseball fans? What is the most exciting play in baseball?
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Rick Zimmer
Jun 16 2006, 09:52 PM
I have just had an debate with my son about what is the most exciting play in baseball.

He claims it is the triple play.  He is wrong, of course.

I claim it is the long throw from right field to home plate when a runner is trying to score.  I, of course, am right.

What say any of you who are baseball fans?  What is the most exciting play in baseball?

You're both right (how's that for a democratic (small 'd') answer?).

The triple play, by definition, is flashy and therefore exciting. However, your long throw to home....well....tension mounts, will he make it?

Sublety or Pizzazz?

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Wow, there are a couple good options:

- A squeeze play
- Triple-play
- Outfield throw to the plate
- Grand slam
- Inside-the-park home run
- A brawl

Of course all of these plays are increased in excitement when the game is on the line... :excited:



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Sorry Rick...didn't answer completely.

Thinking about it, from the stands...I think the most exciting play in baseball is when the game is *on the line*, the ball is hit to the outfield, and then you have the mad race to home. The ball is in the air just as the running is screaming toward home, and the catcher knows the play is coming. The crowd on their feet, the game in the air, and the excitement about as HIGH as it can possibly go during a game. So Rick, I think you're right.
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When your kid is up to bat and he gets a hit.

THAT is the most exciting play in baseball. :D
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The least boring play in baseball is the attempt to steal home.
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Bo Jackson's throw to Bob Boone from deep left center field at the warning track to get Harold Reynolds out at home.

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Jun 16 2006, 07:13 PM
Sorry Rick...didn't answer completely.

Thinking about it, from the stands...I think the most exciting play in baseball is when the game is *on the line*, the ball is hit to the outfield, and then you have the mad race to home. The ball is in the air just as the running is screaming toward home, and the catcher knows the play is coming. The crowd on their feet, the game in the air, and the excitement about as HIGH as it can possibly go during a game. So Rick, I think you're right.

:yes:

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Of the ones listed I agree about the throw from rightfield.

As additional candidates, I'd include:

- an inside the park homerun

- a steal of home

- a delayed double steal with a man on first and third. The man on first deliberately gets caught in a run-down between first and second, allowing the runner on third to try to steal home

Like most exciting plays, all of these need to be seen in person to fully appreciate. If I were forced to pick one, it would be the delayed double steal
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The left handed beer bobble save with a side of nachos.

I was there, it was quite a feat. I was grateful because had he not made the play I would have been wearing beer and cheese whiz.
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Jun 17 2006, 08:23 AM
The left handed beer bobble save with a side of nachos.

I was there, it was quite a feat. I was grateful because had he not made the play I would have been wearing beer and cheese whiz.

:biggrin: good one.

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When after two years of strikeouts and walks, something finally clicks in 12-year old Dewey, and in one evening hits a single, a double, and a triple, off the hottest pitcher in the league.

(okay, okay, that's not technically a single play - but it was the most exciting baseball game ever ^_^ )
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God, I love to go to the games. Can't wait to take in the Sox and Cubbies this summer.. never been to either field.


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Jun 17 2006, 05:23 AM
The left handed beer bobble save with a side of nachos. 

I was there, it was quite a feat. I was grateful because had he not made the play I would have been wearing beer and cheese whiz.

A while ago, we went over to a Pirates game. We were sitting in the first level, about midpoint along the third base line. A foul tip came back our way - it was one of those real high ones that seems to take forever through its trajectory. It finally started to drop, aiming for a spot about 20 feet to our right. There was a guy sitting over there not paying attention, and the ball came down right into his container of nachos sitting in his lap. That was cool enough, but it got better. When the ball hit the nachos, somehow it forced most of the cheese, and some of the chips, up into the air. So here's the guy, just coming to consciousness of what the hell just happened, while every soul standing around him is now watching this big blob of airborne queso making the same sort of high, slow arc that the ball had just made. In a scene that you'd think could only have been computer-generated, the guy's looking in disgust at the mess all over his lap, and the queso lands right on his head, splattering all over him.

It was the damndest thing you ever saw. :lol:
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Horace
Jun 16 2006, 07:35 PM
The least boring play in baseball is the attempt to steal home.

thank you....nothing in the game gives you more of a shock then when the guy takes off for home. it seems so improbable. you can't watch it without thinking "oh sh*t can he make it? is this really happening?"
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