Breaking Baseball’s Unwritten Rules
The Lead
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3.7 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
The San Diego Padres hit a staggering total of five grand slams last week, and one of them — from Fernando Tatis Jr. — sparked a controversy. Today, we’re joined by Doug Glanville — former big league outfielder and co-host of the Starkville podcast — to discuss whether Tatis was in the wrong for breaking one of baseball’s unwritten rules, and whether those rules have finally reached a tipping point.
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| 0:31.0 | I think that I can easily put myself in the ranger situation if you're getting beat by seven. |
| 0:38.0 | And you see a 3-0 swing in a grand slam hit. |
| 0:41.4 | It probably would not strike my fancy. |
| 0:46.4 | Last week, San Diego Padre star Fernando Tatee's Jr. |
| 0:50.1 | broken unwritten rule of baseball when he hit a grand slam on a three-o count with his team |
| 0:55.7 | up big. |
| 0:56.7 | Today, former Major Liger Doug Glanville joins us to discuss the controversy that ensued |
| 1:02.5 | whether Tatee's was in the wrong and if baseball's unwritten rules are now changing. |
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