Okay, so your teammate just hit a home run while you were on base. You’re trotting around the bases and … you get hurt. You can’t run anymore. What happens now? Well, a few rules come into play. One works in your favor, the other makes it so your teammate really shouldn’t try to come help you.
This is the scenario that befell the Boston Red Sox in 2005. Gabe Kapler was likely ecstatic when his teammate, Tony Graffanino, hit a home run. Typically, your buddy hits a home run and that’s the best case scenario for you – they did all the work, you can just trot on
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