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Braun's teammates thought it was pretty funny: they put two crime scene-type tape body outlines on the ground adjacent to the 3rd baseline during batting practice.
Small child: Grandpa, tell us (more likely show us on the iDoodle or whatever will be around then) again about the time you would've been a 30/30 guy but fell rounding third while running out what should have been an inside the park HR.
John, it was only 4 hours 21 minutes. That was some strike zone the umps had. 201 Pitches by the Sawx. 180 by the Yankees, including 74 in the last three innings. The usual free two hit batsmen by Red Sox pitchers. Bud must have phoned in a suggestion. Yankees were lucky to get the win.
"OMG" can only refer to Chuck's quoting Carl Pavano on the "huge difference between a player getting a big contract and being hurt and a player getting a big contract who sucks."
I had just purchased mlb.tv and tuned in to the Cardinals/Brewers game, and that was the 3rd batter that I saw...I really couldn't believe it. I wasn't listening as I was listening to something else, so I had no idea he fell down until I saw him bent over and then jogging back to 3rd...wth? So I was confused at first, then I lol'd!
@14, Liam -- You're right, nobody forces me to watch Yanks-Red Sox. And after all, I'm not even a fan of either team. But I think there are plenty of fans of both teams who are fed up with the pace of those games.
Who was it that fell down during a rundown between 3rd & home against the Yankees when nobody was covering home and got tagged out by Posada from behind...that was funny and sad at the same time.
I was trying to think of funny (or pathetic) baserunning plays I've seen over the years, and I remember being at Yankee Stadium and seeing two runners thrown at home plate on a single throw. Dale Berra was the second of the two inept runners. I couldn't find the video, but I did run across this blog that I though was funny trying to sum up just how bad Dale Berra was compared to his father. The closing paragraph on "sometimes the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree" is classic.
@ 17- MLB NEEDS to change the rules about how long an at-bat takes, having Josh Beckett or C.C. Sabathia giving me a tour of the pitchers mound is not what I want to see at A baseball game. And maybe the umpires could enforce the rules about how long a pitcher has to throw the pitch after the batter steps in. What if one of these games goes to 12 innings?
The Cardinals are not back in the race until they are within 3 games. 7.5 is a HUGE lead. It would be the largest collapse at this point since divisional play.
@22/ MilesT -
"...I remember being at Yankee Stadium and seeing two runners thrown at home plate on a single throw. Dale Berra was the second of the two inept runners..."
That particular play has been discussed several times on this blog recently. It was a 1985 White Sox/Yankees (Saturday) NBC Game of the Week where Rickey Henderson hit a ball in the gap, and both Dale Berra and Bobby Meacham got tagged out at home by WS catcher Carlton Fisk, one after another. Quite amazing.
OK, a little family memory here, and indulge me. My late mother was an old time Yankee fan, and, with her sister, was at Joe DiMaggio Day in 1949. In the late sixties and early 70's she would take us to the Stadium (when they were bad and boring), and she had a great gift for making weird things happen. We were there for Bobby Murcer's 4 consecutive HR's in a double header. Wilbur Wood, starting and losing, both ends of a double header. There was a picture in the NY Daily News of Thurman Munson diving into the stands to catch a pop foul. Right behind him in the frame is my Mom. I'm nowhere to be seen-probably off hot dog hunting. But the single best was when Steve Hamilton struck out Tony Horton with two "folly floaters" and Horton crawled back to the dugout. Maybe not as funny as Ryan Braun, but pretty darn funny. PS-In those days, all those ball players were "nice young men". Except for the spitting.
I saw two runners thrown out at the plate last year in an AFL game.
The first runner gets about two thirds to the plate and realizes he's dead meat, so he tries to go back to third. Unfortunately, Bryce Harper, who was the second runner, blew the stop sign and was right behind him.
@17, JA To give you a sense of my Red Sox fandom, I cry whenever I watch Fever Pitch. And yes, I've watched it multiple times. However, I won't watch Sox/Yanks in the regular season. Marlins/Padres? Sure. But not Sox/Yanks. Matsuzaka, Papelbon, Chamberlain, Beckett, Sabathia, and others are just so awful to watch in these series.
I watch baseball because it's fun. Sox/Yanks until October has ceased to be for me.
Yeah pretty funny, thankfully Braun's run didnt matter in the outcome. It does bother me that no one trys to get out of rundowns anymore though.
Also, Braun and Reggie Miller are buddies and hang out in California in the off season, so Reggie came to Milwaukee to watch Braun in the series, thats why he has a Brewers jersey on also.
when Steve Hamilton struck out Tony Horton with two "folly floaters" and Horton crawled back to the dugout.
Thanks for the link, JT. I'd never watched that footage before, although I'd heard about it several times. Knowing what I know about Horton and how hard the pressure of the big leagues was on him, I actually was kind of relieved to see that he crawled "only" the last three or four steps to the dugout. I'd long imagined him crawling most of the way back from the batter's box. That would have been terribly painful to witness, even in that callous day and age.
@33,
I remember watching (LaLob) Laroche do that to Stormin Gorman back in '81.
Can't find video of it, but here's a good article: http://www.lvrj.com/sports/49379177.html
I heard an interesting take on why they last 4 hours....because every pitch matters. So much strategy going on. flame on. Besides, when it is the background distraction to what you are doing in the foreground it is kinda nice being 4 hours. Really fills the time in. Now to be there in person? My body would have forced me to go home way before then. Baseball seats stink.
I believe Reggie Miller and Ryan Braun are neighbors and good friends.
It appears that we at baseball reference aren't the only ones laughing at Braun's stumble. I found this story on jsonline. Hilarious.
@27. I heard Mitch Williams say today that in 2007, the Mets blew a 7.5 game lead to the Phillies with 17 games to play. I agree though it's very unlikely the Brewers will falter - they're on pace for one of the greatest home winning percentages in history.
Funniest baserunning ever: google "Ruben Rivera baserunning". I just noticed this happened with a tie score and 1 out in the 9th inning.
By the way, I'm not the Brewers/Braun fan who posted earlier.
I heard an interesting take on why they last 4 hours....because every pitch matters. So much strategy going on.
Indeed, for 150 years no one took baseball seriously. Then the Yankees and Red Sox, alone among all the players with millions of dollars as stake, decided to really bear down.
re: 12(JA) ugh.
Think that I have expressed my extreme displeasure on here before, regarding the contract that Pavano got from MN this year.........so no more comments on same 🙂
Game 7 of the 1960 World Series -- a 10-9 game with 5 mid-inning pitching changes and a handful of other mid-inning substitutions -- took 2:36.
My 2011 predictor says it would last 2:57 today. (Less than I assumed. I used the pitch count estimator to figure only 265 pitches thrown in the game. No strikeouts.)
Of course, if the game were played today, it's hard to assume there would be 0 strikeouts.
That's the only postseason game in history with no strikeouts. There have only been ten postseason games when one team did not strike out, and three of them were in that 1960 World Series (counting the game 7 as two -- one for each team).
That last regular season game with 0 strikeouts was in 1985. It's only happened 5 times since 1960.
And if the game were played today, there would be even longer commercial breaks than my formula accounts for. I'm sure I'm wrong but it seems like there hasn't been a Series game under 3 hours in years, and usually they don't even involve the Yankees vs the Red Sox.
September 1st, 2011 at 9:35 pm
Braun's teammates thought it was pretty funny: they put two crime scene-type tape body outlines on the ground adjacent to the 3rd baseline during batting practice.
September 1st, 2011 at 9:57 pm
It's a Charlie Hustle slide... halfway to the bag.
September 1st, 2011 at 10:17 pm
It would be much funnier had he scored AND/OR they won...
September 1st, 2011 at 10:29 pm
It was funny at the time.
Now the Brewers have basically let the Cardinals back in the race.
Super.
September 1st, 2011 at 10:32 pm
Imagine if he only ends up at 29 HRs?
Small child: Grandpa, tell us (more likely show us on the iDoodle or whatever will be around then) again about the time you would've been a 30/30 guy but fell rounding third while running out what should have been an inside the park HR.
September 1st, 2011 at 11:01 pm
Why was Reggie Miller there???
September 1st, 2011 at 11:03 pm
Since I have no rooting stake, I can say, it was funny. I laughed. My wife laughed. Even my teenaged son laughed.
September 1st, 2011 at 11:25 pm
It was even more funny in slow motion.
September 1st, 2011 at 11:34 pm
Silly me, I thought "OMG" had to refer to the latest four-and-a-half-hour Yanks-Sawx slog. 🙂
September 1st, 2011 at 11:37 pm
H/T to Dark Leviathan, who first reported Braun's tumble on Wednesday Wambsgansses.
September 1st, 2011 at 11:52 pm
John, it was only 4 hours 21 minutes. That was some strike zone the umps had. 201 Pitches by the Sawx. 180 by the Yankees, including 74 in the last three innings. The usual free two hit batsmen by Red Sox pitchers. Bud must have phoned in a suggestion. Yankees were lucky to get the win.
September 2nd, 2011 at 12:02 am
Wait-wait-wait, I was mistaken:
"OMG" can only refer to Chuck's quoting Carl Pavano on the "huge difference between a player getting a big contract and being hurt and a player getting a big contract who sucks."
http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/14562/comment-page-1#comment-144612
September 2nd, 2011 at 12:14 am
I had just purchased mlb.tv and tuned in to the Cardinals/Brewers game, and that was the 3rd batter that I saw...I really couldn't believe it. I wasn't listening as I was listening to something else, so I had no idea he fell down until I saw him bent over and then jogging back to 3rd...wth? So I was confused at first, then I lol'd!
September 2nd, 2011 at 12:56 am
Braun was hilarious
and i love 4 hour baseball games, and if you don't you can change the channel
September 2nd, 2011 at 1:09 am
Braun really needs to work on his inside-the-park homeruns.
Great video!
September 2nd, 2011 at 1:13 am
Why was Reggie Miller there???
Why is he anywhere? Can we please dress him like an umpire and place him Cabriael's living room?
God I hate that m-f-.
the latest four-and-a-half-hour Yanks-Sawx slog
Sickening.
September 2nd, 2011 at 1:46 am
@14, Liam -- You're right, nobody forces me to watch Yanks-Red Sox. And after all, I'm not even a fan of either team. But I think there are plenty of fans of both teams who are fed up with the pace of those games.
September 2nd, 2011 at 1:49 am
@16, JT -- Maybe Reggie thought the park was named for him.
September 2nd, 2011 at 1:59 am
Shades of Enrique Wilson c. 1998 ALCS?
September 2nd, 2011 at 2:22 am
Who was it that fell down during a rundown between 3rd & home against the Yankees when nobody was covering home and got tagged out by Posada from behind...that was funny and sad at the same time.
September 2nd, 2011 at 3:29 am
I'd like to thank the Academy, my parents... 😛
September 2nd, 2011 at 3:39 am
I was trying to think of funny (or pathetic) baserunning plays I've seen over the years, and I remember being at Yankee Stadium and seeing two runners thrown at home plate on a single throw. Dale Berra was the second of the two inept runners. I couldn't find the video, but I did run across this blog that I though was funny trying to sum up just how bad Dale Berra was compared to his father. The closing paragraph on "sometimes the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree" is classic.
http://www.whatsucksblog.com/2008/09/what-sucksdale-berra.html (safe)
September 2nd, 2011 at 6:18 am
Graeme-
That was Jack Cust when he was on the O's.
September 2nd, 2011 at 8:05 am
@ 17- MLB NEEDS to change the rules about how long an at-bat takes, having Josh Beckett or C.C. Sabathia giving me a tour of the pitchers mound is not what I want to see at A baseball game. And maybe the umpires could enforce the rules about how long a pitcher has to throw the pitch after the batter steps in. What if one of these games goes to 12 innings?
September 2nd, 2011 at 8:58 am
#12,
Why?
September 2nd, 2011 at 9:00 am
Just to be clear, I find nothing funny about the Brewers losing...I just thought Braun's body language on the two falls was hilarious.
September 2nd, 2011 at 9:41 am
The Cardinals are not back in the race until they are within 3 games. 7.5 is a HUGE lead. It would be the largest collapse at this point since divisional play.
September 2nd, 2011 at 10:02 am
Hahahahahahha. He fell down, not once, but twice!!!
September 2nd, 2011 at 11:46 am
@22/ MilesT -
"...I remember being at Yankee Stadium and seeing two runners thrown at home plate on a single throw. Dale Berra was the second of the two inept runners..."
That particular play has been discussed several times on this blog recently. It was a 1985 White Sox/Yankees (Saturday) NBC Game of the Week where Rickey Henderson hit a ball in the gap, and both Dale Berra and Bobby Meacham got tagged out at home by WS catcher Carlton Fisk, one after another. Quite amazing.
September 2nd, 2011 at 12:35 pm
OK, a little family memory here, and indulge me. My late mother was an old time Yankee fan, and, with her sister, was at Joe DiMaggio Day in 1949. In the late sixties and early 70's she would take us to the Stadium (when they were bad and boring), and she had a great gift for making weird things happen. We were there for Bobby Murcer's 4 consecutive HR's in a double header. Wilbur Wood, starting and losing, both ends of a double header. There was a picture in the NY Daily News of Thurman Munson diving into the stands to catch a pop foul. Right behind him in the frame is my Mom. I'm nowhere to be seen-probably off hot dog hunting. But the single best was when Steve Hamilton struck out Tony Horton with two "folly floaters" and Horton crawled back to the dugout. Maybe not as funny as Ryan Braun, but pretty darn funny. PS-In those days, all those ball players were "nice young men". Except for the spitting.
September 2nd, 2011 at 12:59 pm
Brendan Fraser sure has a gift for physical comedy.
September 2nd, 2011 at 1:03 pm
I saw two runners thrown out at the plate last year in an AFL game.
The first runner gets about two thirds to the plate and realizes he's dead meat, so he tries to go back to third. Unfortunately, Bryce Harper, who was the second runner, blew the stop sign and was right behind him.
Catcher walks over and tags both of them.
September 2nd, 2011 at 1:46 pm
But the single best was when Steve Hamilton struck out Tony Horton with two "folly floaters" and Horton crawled back to the dugout.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFvp7kMraAw
September 2nd, 2011 at 1:47 pm
@17, JA To give you a sense of my Red Sox fandom, I cry whenever I watch Fever Pitch. And yes, I've watched it multiple times. However, I won't watch Sox/Yanks in the regular season. Marlins/Padres? Sure. But not Sox/Yanks. Matsuzaka, Papelbon, Chamberlain, Beckett, Sabathia, and others are just so awful to watch in these series.
I watch baseball because it's fun. Sox/Yanks until October has ceased to be for me.
Ryan Braun, on the other hand, now that's fun.
September 2nd, 2011 at 2:02 pm
Yeah pretty funny, thankfully Braun's run didnt matter in the outcome. It does bother me that no one trys to get out of rundowns anymore though.
Also, Braun and Reggie Miller are buddies and hang out in California in the off season, so Reggie came to Milwaukee to watch Braun in the series, thats why he has a Brewers jersey on also.
September 2nd, 2011 at 2:11 pm
when Steve Hamilton struck out Tony Horton with two "folly floaters" and Horton crawled back to the dugout.
Thanks for the link, JT. I'd never watched that footage before, although I'd heard about it several times. Knowing what I know about Horton and how hard the pressure of the big leagues was on him, I actually was kind of relieved to see that he crawled "only" the last three or four steps to the dugout. I'd long imagined him crawling most of the way back from the batter's box. That would have been terribly painful to witness, even in that callous day and age.
September 2nd, 2011 at 2:48 pm
Thanks, JT. great footage
September 2nd, 2011 at 3:40 pm
@33,
I remember watching (LaLob) Laroche do that to Stormin Gorman back in '81.
Can't find video of it, but here's a good article:
http://www.lvrj.com/sports/49379177.html
September 2nd, 2011 at 3:44 pm
I heard an interesting take on why they last 4 hours....because every pitch matters. So much strategy going on. flame on. Besides, when it is the background distraction to what you are doing in the foreground it is kinda nice being 4 hours. Really fills the time in. Now to be there in person? My body would have forced me to go home way before then. Baseball seats stink.
September 2nd, 2011 at 5:32 pm
I believe Reggie Miller and Ryan Braun are neighbors and good friends.
It appears that we at baseball reference aren't the only ones laughing at Braun's stumble. I found this story on jsonline. Hilarious.
http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/128897003.html
September 2nd, 2011 at 9:00 pm
@27. I heard Mitch Williams say today that in 2007, the Mets blew a 7.5 game lead to the Phillies with 17 games to play. I agree though it's very unlikely the Brewers will falter - they're on pace for one of the greatest home winning percentages in history.
Funniest baserunning ever: google "Ruben Rivera baserunning". I just noticed this happened with a tie score and 1 out in the 9th inning.
By the way, I'm not the Brewers/Braun fan who posted earlier.
September 2nd, 2011 at 11:11 pm
I heard an interesting take on why they last 4 hours....because every pitch matters. So much strategy going on.
Indeed, for 150 years no one took baseball seriously. Then the Yankees and Red Sox, alone among all the players with millions of dollars as stake, decided to really bear down.
September 2nd, 2011 at 11:12 pm
at* stake
September 3rd, 2011 at 2:54 am
@41, Brett -- The 2007 Mets were up 7 games (not 7.5) with 17 to play. Still an epic collapse, but I think Sean's statement was accurate.
September 3rd, 2011 at 2:59 am
FWIW, Game 7 of the 1960 World Series -- a 10-9 game with 5 mid-inning pitching changes and a handful of other mid-inning substitutions -- took 2:36.
September 3rd, 2011 at 5:22 am
re: 12(JA) ugh.
Think that I have expressed my extreme displeasure on here before, regarding the contract that Pavano got from MN this year.........so no more comments on same 🙂
September 3rd, 2011 at 7:46 pm
Game 7 of the 1960 World Series -- a 10-9 game with 5 mid-inning pitching changes and a handful of other mid-inning substitutions -- took 2:36.
My 2011 predictor says it would last 2:57 today. (Less than I assumed. I used the pitch count estimator to figure only 265 pitches thrown in the game. No strikeouts.)
September 3rd, 2011 at 7:53 pm
Of course, if the game were played today, it's hard to assume there would be 0 strikeouts.
That's the only postseason game in history with no strikeouts. There have only been ten postseason games when one team did not strike out, and three of them were in that 1960 World Series (counting the game 7 as two -- one for each team).
That last regular season game with 0 strikeouts was in 1985. It's only happened 5 times since 1960.
September 3rd, 2011 at 10:40 pm
And if the game were played today, there would be even longer commercial breaks than my formula accounts for. I'm sure I'm wrong but it seems like there hasn't been a Series game under 3 hours in years, and usually they don't even involve the Yankees vs the Red Sox.