Work the count to 3-2, what happens on the next pitch??

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Buckeye

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FOUL BALL!!!!

I remember hearing legendary Detroit Tigers announcer Ernie Harwell say this once, and it seems ohhh so true. He said that if you are in a bar watching a baseball game, whenever the count gets to 3-2 bet the guy next to you a beer that the next pitch is a foul ball.

Way more often than not, it is!
 
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Buckeye

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Re: Work the count to 3-2, what happens on the next pitch??

Actually Ernie's quote was something to the effect, "show me a guy who makes this bet while in a bar, and I'll show you an alcoholic."

Ahh, good ole Ernie.....and what if it were a 3-2 count, the batter took strike three and Ernie was calling the game???

"He stood there like the house by the side of the road and watched it go by."
 
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Re: Work the count to 3-2, what happens on the next pitch??

Buckeye said:
FOUL BALL!!!!

I remember hearing legendary Detroit Tigers announcer Ernie Harwell say this once, and it seems ohhh so true. He said that if you are in a bar watching a baseball game, whenever the count gets to 3-2 bet the guy next to you a beer that the next pitch is a foul ball.

Way more often than not, it is!
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Very simple WHY this is a fact

if you wager that it will NOT be Foul, U CAN ONLY WIN ONCE


if you wager the other way, u can lose 1,2,3,4,5,6,7, consecutive times . . . . I was Maybe 7 when I came to this conclusion & yes Have made Few Bucks on it ........

Kinda Like in POKER, Bet the FLOP contains a "JACK" or HIGHER

is like STealing ..........
 
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Buckeye

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Re: Work the count to 3-2, what happens on the next pitch??

betfirstclass said:
Very simple WHY this is a fact

if you wager that it will NOT be Foul, U CAN ONLY WIN ONCE


if you wager the other way, u can lose 1,2,3,4,5,6,7, consecutive times . . . . I was Maybe 7 when I came to this conclusion & yes Have made Few Bucks on it ........

Kinda Like in POKER, Bet the FLOP contains a "JACK" or HIGHER

is like STealing ..........
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That's very true, in a sense. In your scenario once you get the first foul ball on a 3-2 count, the rest of the at-bat (if you can get a sucker), you're playing with house money.

What Ernie was referring to was only the pitch immediately following the pitch that brought on the 3-2 count.

Anyway, good point!

And with that, I am off to a middle school band concert that is likely to last, ohhh, 13 days:doh1 Bad enough I already had the Mets today, now I have to suffer through another headache:LMAO....ahh, but they are only young once, and they are getting older by the minute.
 
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