Sam Houston hits game-tying homer against LA Tech… Misses home plate

So dumb who cares if he touched home or not the run should still count

With what we have gone through in athletics the last few years, we deserve this gift.

The game is baseball - the bases are of central importance.

For all of the retardos in this thread - runs are recorded by an ordered procession around the bases, culminating with home plate. You are allowed to move across the bases, unimpeded, if you hit the ball out of play, but you still have to touch the bases. That's how runs are recorded. If you fail to follow these simple instructions an umpire will not signal to the scorekeeper that a run is to be recorded, and if you abandon the base paths, the fielding team can point this out and get you out.

If Reggie Bush runs a 4.3 and gets past the last defender, who runs a 4.4, should Bush have to continue on to the endzone or should we just say, nah it's a TD, stop running?
When guys are about to cross the goal line and they drop the ball before crossing, with no defenders around them, should we just give them the touchdown?
These touchdowns are as sure as a run being scored after hitting the ball over the fence, so why does the ball have to get into the endzone? Because that's how points are scored. If you don't complete the act that scores the points, you don't get the points.

Someone is going to say, 'but the ball is still in play so he has to keep running to the endzone' - yes, that's my point. He has to keep going in order to score those points even though logic dictates that it's a foregone conclusion that he'll get to the end zone. If all the other players fell down injured, would the NFL say, it's an automatic TD, or would you still have to put the ball in the endzone?

You have to touch all the bases in order for a run to be scored. That's the only way runs are scored. Even when the fielding team throws the ball out of the field of play with a runner on 3rd, that runner trots across home plate, because that's how runs are scored.

Touch em all you dumb asses. And why didn't the coach make the player go back and touch since the ump didn't acknowledge the run. It starts at the top.

Its baked into the name fir a reason:

Homerun

Means “home” “run”

You are doing a run to home.

Can anyone imagine hitting a homerun and then just walking back to the dugout? Its a big achievment and you get to parade around the bases free of worry because you hit it out of park.

I only hit one outside the park home run at the old Box during summer league. It hit the foul pole...and when I heard it hit I looked back and missed 1st base by 5 feet...then proceeded to execute the fastest home run trot off All-time.

I sweated my arse off until the next pitch was thrown. Had the appealed and called me out...I deserved it.

Rules are rules.