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Originally Posted by monkeystyxx
I'll kick us off with bunting with nobody on a base. Saw this twice in G7 of the World Series and it confused me, as previously I assume bunting was something you only did to advance runners. I mean, of all the bunts I've seen (not that many, I'll freely admit, I only started following baseball properly in about August of this year...) the guy doing the bunting very, very rarely gets to first base. Maybe I've seen it twice, and one of those was because of an atrocious throw.
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I'll parrot what other people have been saying about this. Bunting for a hit was never something that a lot of people did. But there were a couple players who did it *a lot*. Two players that I can think of that were successful 20-30ish times a year. These guys are long since retired, but the baseball pendulum always swings back and forth....
Brett Butler &
Ozzie Smith
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Originally Posted by monkeystyxx
Even when the commentators lavish praise on him for a 'perfect bunt', he still gets out. But I'd previously assumed that was the point, since the other runners advance, and sometimes score (since usually the third baseman has to come off the bag to field the bunt).
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If the commentator says it's a perfect bunt and the batter gets out, it's because one of three things happened.
1) He was sacrifice bunting. (Trying to move runners into scoring position)
2) There was an equally amazing defensive play.
3) The announcer is an idiot.
