Inside the park homerun

Dolphinfan · 07-03-2009, 08:07 PM

1st time I've seen this in the game. Unfortunately it was against me.

Cryomaniac · 07-03-2009, 08:35 PM

I've had one or two over the last few versions, it's always cool to see though.

SteveP · 07-03-2009, 10:23 PM

I actually had one in an All-Star game (historical) recently. Made me want to research if that had ever happened IRL.

ae37jr · 07-03-2009, 10:34 PM

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Originally Posted by SteveP

I actually had one in an All-Star game (historical) recently. Made me want to research if that had ever happened IRL.

YouTube - Ichiro 2007 Allstar game inside the park home run

SteveP · 07-03-2009, 10:39 PM

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Originally Posted by ae37jr

YouTube - Ichiro 2007 Allstar game inside the park home run

It's so great that I don't actually have to do any work ...

Ceej · 07-04-2009, 11:23 AM

It seems to me that inside-the-parkers should be more common in 19th century and deadball-era play.

Baseball-Reference has recently made historical HR data, including IITPHR records, available as shown here: Baseball’s most exciting play -- The Hardball Times - though I don't see any easy way to get at season totals. But if we did get season totals for historical years, we could then talk about ways that a future edition of OOTP might go about reflecting them, either with park factors or park dimensions or... something.

07-03-2009, 08:07 PM	#1
Dolphinfan Minors (Double A) Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Connecticut, USA Posts: 110	Inside the park homerun 1st time I've seen this in the game. Unfortunately it was against me.

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Cryomaniac Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2007 Location: Hucknall, Notts, UK Posts: 4,902	I've had one or two over the last few versions, it's always cool to see though. __________________

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SteveP Moderator Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 3,109	I actually had one in an All-Star game (historical) recently. Made me want to research if that had ever happened IRL.

07-04-2009, 11:23 AM	#6
Ceej Minors (Double A) Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 190	It seems to me that inside-the-parkers should be more common in 19th century and deadball-era play. Baseball-Reference has recently made historical HR data, including IITPHR records, available as shown here: Baseball’s most exciting play -- The Hardball Times - though I don't see any easy way to get at season totals. But if we did get season totals for historical years, we could then talk about ways that a future edition of OOTP might go about reflecting them, either with park factors or park dimensions or... something.