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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I remember when it was the bottom of the 6th, 2 outs, tied game, bases loaded.

I prayed for DS to get hit by the ball.

He struck out. The game went to 10 innnings.[/quote]

If you're gonna pray, why not pray for a hit?[/quote]

Simple strategy. Because with the bases loaded and two outs, a HBP has the batter take first, thereby automatically bringing home the runner on 3rd and winning the game.

If PP’s son had gotten a hit, there was a chance it would be caught or he’d be thrown out at 1st. Either forces you into extra innings when everyone just wants to go home. [/quote]

Sigh.  Striking the ball with the bat is [b]NOT[/b] a hit.

A hit has a clear (and commonly understood) definition in baseball and softball.  It is when the batter puts the ball into play and reaches base safely without an error by the defense.

If you are going to pray, pray for the exciting win where your DS actually earns the feeling of a walk-off win, instead of doing nothing and getting plunked[/quote]

It's not the batters fault the kid threw a lousy pitch and hit him. It's part of the game.[/quote]

Yes, but in that situation, the batter didn't win the game; the other team lost it.

Like PP said, if you're going to pray, at least pray for your kid to actually do something beside just take up space in the batters box[/quote]

DP. Effectively crowding to plate to draw a HBP without getting called out or warned is a skill [/quote]

No its not.  It's 100% dependent on what kind of mood the umpire is in.  And honestly, most just want to end the game and move on to the next so they would never call it.  the only ones that do call that are the ones that are, for some reason, cranky about spending their weekends in the heat umpiring games[/quote]

Then why do the same guys lead the mlb in hit pitches year in and year out? Even at the youth level, their are kids who are better at getting the call than other kids [/quote]

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