Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site mhuxt.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!js2j From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag) Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball,net.puzzle Subject: Re: 5 RBIs in 1 at bat Message-ID: <883@mhuxt.UUCP> Date: Wed, 22-May-85 09:42:03 EDT Article-I.D.: mhuxt.883 Posted: Wed May 22 09:42:03 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 23-May-85 02:38:57 EDT References: <14552@watmath.UUCP> <192@bocar.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 21 Xref: watmath net.sport.baseball:1251 net.puzzle:859 > How to drive in five runs with a single swing of the bat: > > Bases loased, he walks on four pitches - 1 RBI > Next time up, > bases loaded, hits grand slam - 4 RBIs > ------ > Total - 5 RBIs > Mark Nevar I thought it was 5 RBIs in 1 at bat! If we're allowed to use more than 1 at bat, how about: Basses loaded, walks on four pitches - 1 RBI < repeat ad infinitum> There, infinite RBIs with no swings of the bat! (There had better be a better answer than these waiting out there somewhere!) -- Jeff Sonntag ihnp4!mhuxt!js2j "Time has passed, and now it seems that everybody's having those dreams. Everybody sees himself walking around with no one else." - Dylan