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10-23-2012, 01:11 AM #1
Hunter Pence hits a ball 3 times in 1 swing!
For those who didn't already see this tonight, this is one of the coolest things I've ever seen. 1 swing, 3 hits. Hopefully someone here will end up with this bat!
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10-23-2012, 01:54 AM #2
Re: Hunter Pence hits a ball 3 times in 1 swing!
Kyle -
Awesome video!
Did they call him out? The ruling is that if contact the ball with the bat more than once in the swing, it is an automatic out.
Actually 'double' contact happens more than people think, but due to bat speeds of MLB players know, it's almost invisible to the naked eye.
I can't say I've ever seen evidence of a 'three hit swing' before though!
Thanks for sharing!
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10-23-2012, 06:31 AM #3
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Re: Hunter Pence hits a ball 3 times in 1 swing!
I thought it was the rule that a batter was out if the bat hit the ball a second time, but the commentators indicated that was not the case for a broken bat. What does the rulebook actually say? (I'm rushing to help babysit our three little grandsons, and don't have time to look it up.)
The replay technology was awesome: I've never seen replays show the ball-bat collision so closely. Physicist baseball fans could have a rich source of data from that! If such double-collisions (or other occurences) do happen a lot faster than a human eye can perceive, they may have to re-write some rules in the future.
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10-23-2012, 08:22 AM #4
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10-23-2012, 08:26 AM #5
Re: Hunter Pence hits a ball 3 times in 1 swing!
In real time, there was no way to tell that it happened... though you knew something was fishy when the shortstop broke toward third to field the ball and it ended up passing him on his glove side. The ball had some funky english on it.
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10-23-2012, 10:15 AM #6
Re: Hunter Pence hits a ball 3 times in 1 swing!
I've done that on more than one occasion...
from the sand trap.Greg
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10-23-2012, 11:21 PM #7
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Re: Hunter Pence hits a ball 3 times in 1 swing!
http://blogs.mercurynews.com/giants/...at-in-america/
As if the Game 7 triple-double wasn’t strange enough, Hunter Pence revealed Tuesday that the magical bat had a name.
“Fryer,” Pence said. “I name all my bats. Whatever word comes to mind, I write it on them.”
Fryer?
“F-R-Y-E-R,” Pence said.
So now we know, Fryer was the hero that died for a great cause Monday night. Fryer was also the bat that hit a baseball deep into the St. Louis night in Game 4. Pence said he has no idea what happened to Fryer, but Andrew Baggarly did some digging and found that a season-ticket holder bought it at the team store and later called the Giants and said Pence should have it back.
This story may have a happy ending after all for Pence, who thought the bat was long gone.
“He will always be Fryer to me,” Pence said.
Fryer might be coming home, and with the way Pence breaks bats, surely will soon be joined by another named bat. What are the other names?
“Man,” Pence said, smiling. “You all are getting personal.”
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10-24-2012, 01:16 AM #8
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http://www.csnbayarea.com/baseball-s...65&feedID=2539
They can't find the ball that ended the game now that Scutaro caught.
Amazing how fast the Giants take items from game time to their store for sale.
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10-24-2012, 08:03 AM #9
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10-24-2012, 08:13 AM #10
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Re: Hunter Pence hits a ball 3 times in 1 swing!
I don't understand why the bat is such a big deal and would be considered Giant lore. It's not like the bat won the game, even without Pence's hit the Giants still would have won and if the short stop fielded his position the right way it would have been a double play and only scored 1 run that at-bat.