# Baseball rules quiz

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-rules-quiz/661368>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [June 19, 2013, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-rules-quiz/661368 "2013-06-19T15:38:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-rules-quiz/661368/21 "2013-06-21T05:34:16Z")

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I got 4/10.

In my defense, I’m a football/basketball/soccer ref.

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**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-rules-quiz/661368/22 "2013-06-21T13:40:25Z")

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I know almost nothing about baseball, so I tried to answer the quiz on the Principle of Maximum Surprisingness (i.e., that quizzes are usually written so that the answer is something like “Surprisingly, the answer is [true/false]!”.

But I ended up with 6/10, which is consistent with random guessing.

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**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2013, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-rules-quiz/661368/23 "2013-06-22T20:50:47Z")

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I scored 9 out of 10. I was positive of all the answers I got right. I missed only #9. I was concentrating on whether or not crossing the foul line ended the visit and not that there was a new pitcher on the mound.

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**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2013, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-rules-quiz/661368/24 "2013-06-23T03:33:43Z")

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I got distracted when the Pirates were playing the Rangers and Blue Jays were playing the Padres.

Then I remembered interleague games.

Distraction is why I got 5/10 correct.

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**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2013, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-rules-quiz/661368/25 "2013-06-23T15:29:21Z")

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Interesting (and critical) rules issue came up in yesterday’s Giants - Marlins game (I was there).

Two outs, runner (Zito) on 1B, batter (Blanco) hits a shot to the base of the wall which bounces up into the stands. At first, it seemed like the Giants got a terrible break – Zito would have scored easily if the ball had remained in play, and by bouncing into the stands he has to remain at 3B. But then the umpires step in and award Zito home. Lo and behold…spectator interference had occurred, and the umpires have the discretion to place the runners wherever they feel they would have been without the interference.

(Initially they put Blanco at 3B, but then they sent him back to 2B).

Marlins manager didn’t like their discretion, and got tossed.

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