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Minor Leaguer Breaks Up No-Hitter In 9th Inning With A Bunt, Then Benches Clear

by Larry Leo

June 5, 201963 Comments

Minor Leaguer Breaks Up No-Hitter In Ninth Inning With A Bunt, Then Benches Clear

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This Double -A minor leaguer pulled a pretty jerk move when he laid done a bunt during the opposing team's no-hitter. Per The Spun...

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Tuesday night, a game at the Double-A level reignited the debate again. The Hartford Yard Goats, leading 3-0 against the Trenton Thunder, had a no-hitter going between three pitchers and one out in the ninth inning.

Thunder batter Matt Lipka decided to try a bunt and laid it down perfectly. He posted the first hit of the game for his team.

Predictably, the Yard Goats were not thrilled with his decision. The benches cleared, but it doesn’t look like anyone threw any haymakers.

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UGATiger26•72 months

WTF...I mean, it was 3-0 with 1 out. Get a man on base, and who knows what can happen from there. So teams are supposed to stop trying to win if the opposing pitcher has a no-hitter going? There's a reason no-hitters are special, and it kind of diminishes the accomplishment if the other team is just expected to roll over in the 9th inning.

TampaTiger22•72 months

Spoken like someone who doesn't know shite about baseball.

pellietigersaint•72 months

@tampatiger22 frick that man. we know baseball but competition superseeds unwritten rules. If I was at bat, I'd try to spoil the no hitter. frick the other team. you cant convince any real competitor otherwise

FredBear•72 months

It's not the batters job to put himself out, that's on the pitcher and the defense. That's true regardless of the situation.

BCLA•72 months

"a no-hitter going between three pitchers" Stopped reading here. It's a non issue if there's more than one pitcher.

TigerFanatic99•72 months

This.

Hester Carries•72 months

Its also minor league baseball where records are bull shite anyway.

jpainter6174•72 months

It was a multi-pitcher no hitter... not the same as if it was one pitcher, who cares

SomeLSUguy•72 months

That doesn't really change anything, but it changes everything!

CAD703X•72 months

I mean they're only down by 3 was he not supposed to try to get on base?

UAinSOUTHAL•72 months

frick that. The opposing team is paid to win, not lay down because you have a no hitter with 1 out in the 9th. You have to earn it. This is exactly what is wrong with the SJW everyone needs a trophy mentality in this country.

Peepdip•72 months

You were doing so good until the last sentence.

Zzyzx•72 months

Baseball is so dumb. Stop him from reaching 1st if you want the no hitter. Cry babies

Sid in Lakeshore•72 months

Score was 3-0..... They needed base runners. Play better defense.

theOG•72 months

The worst part about these titty babies crying is that the no hitter was between three pitchers! It's not like one guy had been out there grinding the whole game and the bunt happened.

ChineseBandit58•72 months

Which makes it all the more silly that this pitcher was the one so mad about it. Bunt to get on - steal 2nd - hope the walk the next batter to set up dp - hope for a HR to tie the game - go on to win. THAT would have been my mental process up to bat in that situation.

SUB•72 months

Damn, if this article title doesn't describe "participation trophy" generation best, I don't know what does. Should the batter just have let him strike him out? Jeez. What a bunch of losers.

Hester Carries•72 months

What are you talking about? This is a remnant of "old baseball". But yeah blame a hundred years of dumb baseball tradition on the younger generation that inherited it.

SUB•72 months

A remnant of old baseball is folding over and giving a no-hitter (even though this wasn't a true one) to a pitcher? Sounds like a pussy sport to begin with then.

kywildcatfanone•72 months

No issue with the bunt. It was a single just like any other single

CarRamrod•72 months

how is that a jerk move? His goal stepping up to the plate was to get a hit.

msudawg1200•72 months

I don’t understand this “unwritten rule” not to bunt to break up a no-hitter. You do what you have to do to get baserunners on and win the game.

AtlantaLSUfan•72 months

Its the only “unwritten rule” that I disagree with.

udtiger•72 months

You play to win the game.

crewdepoo•72 months

“What a dick” For getting a hit?

tadelatt•72 months

I am sorry but if you cannot hit this guy, what is wrong with bunting? He has to earn the No-Hitter, not just hope the other teams gives it to him once he reaches the 9th inning.

imjustafatkid•72 months

Huh? A bunt is a hit. Why wouldn't he take what the defense was giving him?

PoBoy1•72 months

It was a 3-0 game. No one is entitled to a no-hitter. Don't allow a bunt hit, pitcher.

CAD703X•72 months

"No one is entitled to a no-hitter." on top of that it was 3 different pitchers EL OH EL

BayouBlue•72 months

I have no issue with this play

ConwayGamecock•72 months

A bunt is an official hit in baseball. If you cannot get a hit against a pitcher the conventional way, then do what you have to do. If you can't even get a bunt for a hit, then get walked or get hit with the pitch. You don't play for the team no-hitting you, you play for your team....

Xcalibur2017•72 months

Be a man and have some respect for the game JA

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