Baseball: Difference between revisions

** Because baseball has no clock, a team can be down to their last out and still win, no matter how far down they are. There are actually [[Real Life]] cases of a team being way down with two outs in the bottom of the 9th and winning the game because the defense wasn't able to record that final out (e.g. Cleveland's 9-run rally against Washington in 1901, final score 14-13).

* '''[[Game of Nerds]]''': Baseball probably has the highest geek quotient of any mainstream sport, and several media works (especially those involving children) will have at least one kid who isn't really athletic but tries to make up for it with his knowledge of baseball's minutiae.

* '''[[Who Needs Overtime]]''': The game is always decided in the ninth inning, win or lose. Teams never tie the game in the ninth and then win in extra innings. In [[Real Life]], extra inning games are considered extremely exciting, but in fiction, this violates the [[Law of Conservation of Detail]].

* '''[[Mighty Glacier]]''': First basemen and DHes tend to be portrayed this way because...well...most of them in [[Real Life]] tend to be big, slow, power hitters.

 

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