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From: samuels@h-sc1.UUCP (ronald samuels)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: pinch hitting (Rusty Staub)
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Date: Sat, 27-Apr-85 17:14:45 EDT
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> > 
> >  If the Mets (e.g.) bring Rusty Staub in to bat for Bruce Berenyi in the
> >  bottom of the seventh, and then bat around, will Staub bat again? 
> 
> 
>      Well, yes and no.  Yes, he's entitled to bat again.  However, if
> the Mets bat around, it will probably mean that Staub got on base.  If
> Staub gets anything except a home run, Davey Johnson will send in a pinch-
> runner.  Most people run faster than Rusty Staub.
> Stationary objects run faster than Rusty Staub.  Ed Kranepool could probably
> run faster than Rusty Staub.
> 
> 

That's not necesarily true.  Johnson sometimes leaves him in if he's not
the lead runner.  Furthermore, I don't think Kranepool could catch Staub,
and Stationary objects don't move MUCH faster than Staub.  -:

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Ron Samuels
Harvard University Science Center

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