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Originally Posted by Syd Thrift
Okay, sure, but we don’t see this in the game. This exact situation happens like only a couple times a year but if you get into that situation that’s what you should see / read, not “it’s a ground ball to second, here’s the toss to first, and that’s the second out of the inning… and the runner on third scores! Ballgame!”. You trade the run for the out a lot of times, to be sure, but you never trade a win for an out.
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I'm not sure how the play-by-play would go, but the game summary would simply say "groundout 5-3, runner scores." That's how
Hosmer's dash home in game 5 of the 2015 World Series was scored. So just looking at the summary doesn't necessarily tell you how the play unfolded.