Small ball is alive and well :)

[countryboy]

Small ball still has a place in today's game.

[NYJin2011tm]

I still suicide squeeze!

[mattynokes]

I probably should have recorded the video, but I had a walkoff suicide squeeze in a game that I had no business winning. I kept getting out of jams or doing just enough to match my opponent's extra inning score. Finally, in the 14th (I believe), I got the ghost runner over the third and with one out decided, "Screw it, let's go for it," and for once my guy didn't line drive the bunt!

I do small ball quite often. Have a good contact/vision guy at the plate and decent to good speed on the bases and I'm certainly trying to execute a Hit & Run. Have a burner on base and I'm sending him on my best Vince Coleman impression nearly Every. Single. Time. Having a tough time scoring runs out getting good contact to drop in for a hit and I'm eventually going to lay down a sac bunt or try for a sac fly to get something on the board.

[NYJin2011tm]

Quote: Originally Posted by Ghost Of The Year

The most exciting play in baseball. The last suicide squeeze I tried, my batter missed the ball because it was too far off the plate. My heart dropped, I knew I was dead to rights. Then I see the pitch is so far off the plate, the catcher couldn't catch it any better than I could bunt it. Safe!

For the most part over the years I've been pretty successful but yea it's backfired a few times too because of missing the bunt or popup/lineout bunts.

[Madden08PCgmr]

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[catfish9-5]

Quote: Originally Posted by countryboy

Small ball still has a place in today's game.

I call it fastbreak baseball. IRL, I'll bunt any of my players at any given time. Lay it down and watch the buttholes pucker