Strikeout rule makes no sense

Or catcher blocks the ball and throws the guy out.

You will get downvoted but yea I don’t get it. If your stuff is good enough to get a guy to swing and miss on strike 3, I think that should be a dead ball, same would go for a walk.

It's been a part of baseball forever.

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It's been a part of baseball forever.

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Yes but when you think about it logically it’s absurd. I’m not saying that the batter should just be called out, but there needs to be a middle ground.

Why does it work.

You. Struck. Out.

That shouldn’t get you on base with no out recorded.

Think about it like this. You have an 0-2 count and no one on base. A wild pitch is thrown. If you simply swing at the wild pitch with no intention of hitting it, you can just run to first base. Meanwhile, if that same thing happens and you don’t swing, you have to stay put, you just get a ball.

We are literally rewarding batter’s for taking awful swings

Wow great find.

So it’s a vestige of earlier iterations of the game and serves no real purpose in modern baseball.

Therefore the run was illegitimate and they should have to finish the game tomorrow.

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Think about it like this. You have an 0-2 count and no one on base. A wild pitch is thrown. If you simply swing at the wild pitch with no intention of hitting it, you can just run to first base. Meanwhile, if that same thing happens and you don’t swing, you have to stay put, you just get a ball.

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Yes, because I'm sure the batter can think of this quick enough with an 0-2 count and a wild pitch to deliberately swing at a wild pitch. It's the strategy on everyone's mind.

I doubt anyone on this board ever gave serious thought to changing the rule before last night. Leave it alone, it's part of the game.