Re: Another gem from WMTW

[Aaron Read <aread@speakeasy.net>]

At 05:45 PM 7/16/2003, Kevin Vahey wrote:
>If you throw the ball to another player it is not unassisted
>
>
>On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 5:24PM -0500, SteveOrdinetz wrote:
>>Kevin Vahey wrote:
>>>It takes talent to blow something this badly
>>>According to wmtw.com:
>>>
>>>Garciaparra entered the game in the top of the seventh inning. With one out
>>>and a man on first, Rondell White grounded to Garciaparra, who stepped on
>>>second and threw to first baseman Jason Giambi to complete an unassisted
>>>inning-ending double-play.
>>
>>
>>Are you sure about that?  If that's the case, then by definition every 
>>double-play is assisted (unless you can run like The Flash :-)   It would 
>>make sense for an "unassisted" double play to mean a player gets the ball 
>>and tags the base (without tossing to another player to tag the base) and 
>>then throws to another base (usually first).   In that sense, an 
>>"assisted" double play here would mean Nomar caught and then tossed it to 
>>the 2nd basement who made the first tag, and who then threw to first.
>>
>>But I'm injecting logic into baseball rules...always a dangerous thing!  :-)
>>
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>>Aaron "Bishop" Read             aread@speakeasy.net
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