# Most Exciting Play In Baseball? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [October 11, 2015, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-exciting-play-in-baseball/734232 "2015-10-11T01:20:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-exciting-play-in-baseball/734232/21 "2015-10-28T01:18:10Z")
I’ll bet Royals fans found tonight’s lead-off, first-pitch inside-the-park home run pretty exciting. Good way to start a World Series. ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-exciting-play-in-baseball/734232/22 "2015-10-28T01:49:19Z")
Was watching the game with no sound in a bar. They ruled that a HR? Looked like a four base error to me. Exciting all the same. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-exciting-play-in-baseball/734232/23 "2015-10-28T12:52:49Z")
I thought it was generous scorekeeping. I’d say a double plus two base error was more like it. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-exciting-play-in-baseball/734232/24 "2015-10-28T13:03:04Z")
I thought you got credit for the HR even if was do to errors but I never looked into it. There aren’t many in the park home runs that don’t involve an error. Last night’s was certainly entertaining. The trouble with defining the most exciting play is that in context a fly ball to right field can be very exciting like the night’s sacrifice to end the game. Well, as long as you’re not a Mets fan it was exciting. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-exciting-play-in-baseball/734232/25 "2015-10-28T13:13:41Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > I thought you got credit for the HR even if was do to errors but I never looked into it. There aren’t many in the park home runs that don’t involve an error. No credit for a hit if an error is involved, such as a dropped fly ball or booted grounder. However, if you hit a legitimate double and you advance further on a wild throw, as **BobLibDem** mentioned, you get credit for the double, extra bases are charged as an error. A true inside the park job (example), a drive to right, the right fielder dives for it, misses completely( no error), the ball rolls to the fence and the fielder, since he’s laying on the ground, needs extra time to retrieve and throw the ball. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-exciting-play-in-baseball/734232/26 "2015-10-28T13:20:08Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > No credit for a hit if an error is involved, such as a dropped fly ball or booted grounder. > > However, if you hit a legitimate double and you advance further on a wild throw, as **BobLibDem** mentioned, you get credit for the double, extra bases are charged as an error. > > A true inside the park job (example), a drive to right, the right fielder dives for it, misses completely( no error), the ball rolls to the fence and the fielder, since he’s laying on the ground, needs extra time to retrieve and throw the ball. Don’t know how they scored it, I’m sure he got credit for at least a single. Did they score an error on it? Assuming they didn’t score an error for a ball that reaches the wall would they score errors for the Yakety Sax action that followed? Anyway, those are always fun to watch. And that guy really tore around the bases, I give him a lot of credit, plays like that make a huge difference in post-season play. Since it was the first inning it’s hard to say it contributed that much to the Royal’s win, but in pure scoring it was one of the runs that one the game for them. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-exciting-play-in-baseball/734232/27 "2015-10-28T13:23:27Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Don’t know how they scored it, I’m sure he got credit for at least a single. They scored it a home run. There was no error allocated on the play. The only Mets fielding error of the night was a throwing error by David Wright. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-exciting-play-in-baseball/734232/28 "2015-10-28T13:29:41Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Don’t know how they scored it, I’m sure he got credit for at least a single. Did they score an error on it? Assuming they didn’t score an error for a ball that reaches the wall would they score errors for the Yakety Sax action that followed? If the batter got credit for a HR, the official scorer ruled there was no error. ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-exciting-play-in-baseball/734232/29 "2015-10-28T14:06:59Z")
Yep, ruled a home run. The ball hit Cespedes in the leg as he was standing upright, so I think it should have been an error, but oh well. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-exciting-play-in-baseball/734232/30 "2015-10-28T14:16:08Z")
> [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](#): > > Yep, ruled a home run. The ball hit Cespedes in the leg as he was standing upright, so I think it should have been an error, but oh well. They seem to give some leeway to the fielders near the wall. If it had hit the wall and taken a funny bounce I don’t think they would have scored an error. Still pretty cool, first World Series inside the park home run since 1929 or something like that, and in a game that tied for the longest World Series game in innings. ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-exciting-play-in-baseball/734232/31 "2015-10-28T22:24:06Z")
> [@mcgato](#): > > [Here is the closest that I found.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ27lmwKreE) It is a walkoff three run inside the park homerun in extra innings. One reason inside-the-park walk-off grans slams are so rare is the home has to be losing by exactly three runs. On a potential inside-the-park home run, the game ends as soon as the winning run scores unlike an out-of-the-park home run so it would not matter if the batter continued to run and “scored”, he would be credited for no more bases than the runner who scored the winning run advanced. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-exciting-play-in-baseball/734232.md?page=1)