Out for missing a base

[jar2574]

I was playing a game out and saw, for the first time in my OOTP career, a player get called out for missing a bag. He was going to get a double put he missed first. Thankfully it was the other team. I've been playing this game since around 2007, I think, and I've never seen that!

[Curve Ball Dave]

Just goes to show the game programs events to happen, no matter how improbable. If you been watching live games since 2007 you'll probably only see it happen once

[NoOne]

think this happened this year with the tigers?

i don't watch much baseball anymore... it's too boring, lol. playing it was mostly boring too, come to think of it. i do like video games of it, though.

i watch the tigers when they have a professional team.

[Juggernt]

I'd actually prefer to see more rare plays, and excepting that, greater variation on the normal ones.

[Drstrangelove]

Relatively rare play, ime. Gets called at first mostly for obvious reasons. Missing third on an otherwise routine scoring play would probably get severe blowback. I've probably seen more players stop and run back to the base if they missed it. Umps often don't call it if the player looks really close, but I don't think they're supposed to call it unless the defence squawks. It's kind of like, well, unless you say something, I'm not calling it.

[Curve Ball Dave]

Originally Posted by Drstrangelove

Umps often don't call it if the player looks really close, but I don't think they're supposed to call it unless the defence squawks. It's kind of like, well, unless you say something, I'm not calling it.

By rule the umps aren't allowed to say anything. If a runner misses a base, or tags up too early the umps are supposed say nothing unless there is appeal.

[RchW]

Originally Posted by Juggernt

I'd actually prefer to see more rare plays, and excepting that, greater variation on the normal ones.

They would then not be rare, which would affect the realism inherent in the game.

[Leo_The_Lip]

I will always think of Marvelous Marv Throneberry:

"Monday’s blunder seemed reassuringly retro. Church seemed to have scored on Angel Pagan’s hit but was called out for missing third — a throwback to that magical day in 1962 when Marvin Eugene Throneberry appeared to have lashed a triple, only to be called out for missing second base. When Casey Stengel hopped out to complain to the umpires, his trusted first-base coach, Cookie Lavagetto, whispered not to make too big a fuss, because Throneberry had also missed first. This one play was probably the essential Marv, who gave his initials and his bumbling soul to the first-year expansion franchise."

You can't make this stuff up.

[Juggernt]

Originally Posted by RchW

They would then not be rare, which would affect the realism inherent in the game.

"More" doesn't necessarily translate to "not rare." If there are one in a million, doubling the number still makes them pretty rare.