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I wondered about that as well, but I considered that to
mean that no one was actually standing on the bases (thus, no body on base);
then my theory of three runners "on base" would hold up. If it doesn't, then I
don't know of any rule in baseball that would make a batter running to first
base be called "OUT" by throwing the ball to the third baseman and having him
step on third base. Also, what other explanation could there be for three of the
batter's teammates to "run off the field" after the (third) OUT is
called?
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Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 3:03
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Subject: Re: Puzzler of the week
Good answer Dave. That was the conclusion I
also came to except the information stated that there was no one on base. (
that was why the first baseman was playing off the bag.)
John.
At 07:43 PM 09/23/2003, D.L. Gomez
wrote:
The bases were
loaded, but all runners were standing off their respective bases. By
throwing the ball to the third baseman, the runner from second to third was
forced OUT. Since that was the third out of the inning, the batter, along
with his three teammates who had been on the three bases, ran off the
field.
- ----- Original Message -----
- From: Scott MacLean
- To: MacLean List ; Georgetown Crew Mailing List
- Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 9:23 AM
- Subject: Puzzler of the week
- This week's puzzler:
- I had had a hard day at work. The boss had been on my case. I decided
to hit the local tavern on my way home.
- I walked in to the tavern, and I noticed there was a ballgame on the
TV that's hanging on the back wall. I took a stool at the bar, and ordered
a beer. I glanced up. I'm not really that interested in baseball, but
there was an attractive lady sitting there, and she seemed interested in
the game. I asked her, "What's the score?"
- She said, "There's no score. It's the bottom of the 5th."
- There were two outs. The batter hit a hard grounder, sharply down the
first-base line. Since there was no one on base, the first baseman was
playing off the bag. He lunged and grabbed the ball before it could make
it into the outfield.
- Then�instead of running to first base to make the out�he took the
ball, and fired it across the diamond to the third baseman, who caught the
ball and stepped on third. The ump made the sign saying, "You're out!" All
three of his team mates ran off the field.
- What happened?
- Last week's puzzler:
- It was a dark and stormy night. Tommy and I were passengers on a small
ferry, en route to a tiny island off the Connecticut coast. We were on the
upper deck, smoking Cuban cigars with the captain. This was the kind of
ferry that takes cars as well as passengers, and from our vantage we could
see the eight or nine cars that were parked on the front of the boat. But
we could barely see the license plates of these cars, let alone what makes
and models they were.
- As we approached the dock, Tommy and I decided that we needed to have
a bet. Tommy said, "Geez, how many of these cars do you figure are
automatics, and how many do you figure are standard shift?"
- So, I picked a number. I said, " I think three cars are stick
shift."
- And Tommy said, "I think there are five."
- The boat finally docked, and the people who owned the cars got in them
and drove away. And I turned to my brother, and said, "You won."
- We never left the upper deck, and all we could see were the backs of
the cars. We couldn't see inside the cars, nor could we identify what
makes the cars were. But we did see the people get in and drive the cars
off the boat
- The captain said, "How could there not be an argument here? How could
you possibly know and agree that Tommy's number was right?"
- Last week's puzzler answer:
- The answer is we didn't determine how many stick shifts there were. We
determined how many automatics there were. We did a little subtraction
problem here. The way we determined which cars were automatics is that
when you start an automatic transmission car, as you shift from park to
drive -- you go through reverse - momentarily. So all the cars with
automatics had their reverse lights flash for a split second, and then
they drove off. We counted how many cars had their lights flash. And then
I settled the bet. I lost another hundred
bucks
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