What happens if a player hits a home run and gets injured running around the bases?
March 20th, 2009 | by DistanceRunner |Ryan asked:
A player hits a home run, but while rounding one of the bases, collapses, due to some sort of injury, and cannot finish running around the bases. Do they count it as a home run?
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A player hits a home run, but while rounding one of the bases, collapses, due to some sort of injury, and cannot finish running around the bases. Do they count it as a home run?
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9 Responses to “What happens if a player hits a home run and gets injured running around the bases?”
By john c on Mar 21, 2009 | Reply
As long as he made it to first the team could put in a pinch runner to finish the trip to home.
By Ross Detwiler on Mar 21, 2009 | Reply
One time a softball players broke her leg running the bases so her teammates had to carry here around the field.
I think it will still count.
By tim on Mar 24, 2009 | Reply
yes they will put in a pinch runner to finish running around. lol (:
By rgentry23 on Mar 26, 2009 | Reply
A pinch runner can come in and finish the trip. In the softball game a previous answer mentioned, the umpire told the coach that a pinch runner COULD NOT enter the game to finish the trip. Therefore it ended up that they carried the girl around the bases. So due to an umpire not knowing the rules, a couple of girls got some national television time for their sportsmanship.
By unkown on Mar 28, 2009 | Reply
Ross Detwiler -acutally the other team carry her around team mates couldn’t help her beacuse she would of been called out.
Though the umpire of softball called them and said you could have a pitch hitter round the bases.
By Snake on Mar 30, 2009 | Reply
He has to be helped around the bases, I think.
By Chipmaker on Mar 31, 2009 | Reply
In Major League Baseball, the team is allowed to substitute a pinch runner for the injured player. The team is entitled to all the bases, so the PR completes the trot and is credited the run scored (the batter is credited all other stats).
Very similar situation, in 2005 Gabe Kapler was on 1B when Tony Graffanino homered for the Red Sox. Kapler tore some ligaments rounding 2B and went down. After a few minutes, he was helped from the field (Graf had been crouching between 1B and 2B — still not permitted to pass a teammate baserunner), a PR went in, and completed the trot.
By E.G. Emeritus on Apr 2, 2009 | Reply
There’s a video of this at
Watch it and enjoy the sportsmanship.
By ? on Apr 3, 2009 | Reply
He is summarily shot and the game is replayed in its entirety.