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5/25 1:10 Tigers @ Twins


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2 minutes ago, Crazy Cat Gentleman said:

"zombie" is the more accurate term, but "ghost runner" is the right term because it's belittling of a stupid rule.

Disagree.

A "ghost runner" is already a designation in the game of baseball. It refers to a phantom runner that is assumed to be on a base when a team does not have enough players to have a runner available. You've probably played in games with a ghost runner when you were a kid. The runner can only move as many bases as the batter and runners behind them: if you have a ghost runner on first and the batter gets a double, the ghost runner is assumed to go only to third base. Point being, the "ghost runner" term already existed and referred to something different from this when the rule was implemented.

"Zombie runner" is right because the runner placed on second to start the inning was the last out of the prior inning. He basically died to end the inning, and then he was resurrected from the dead to come back and be a baserunner in the following inning. As far as I can tell, that's the perfect situation to apply the word "zombie", and not the word "ghost".

That said, who gives a shit.

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