# Unwritten Laws In Baseball **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 12, 2007, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unwritten-laws-in-baseball/418913 "2007-09-12T15:29:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2007, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unwritten-laws-in-baseball/418913/21 "2007-09-13T06:21:43Z")
I’m not a baseball player or that serious of a fan, but I’ve also heard that it’s bad to slide spikes up. Is this true? ---
**Author:** ![Cyberhwk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@Cyberhwk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyberhwk)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2007, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unwritten-laws-in-baseball/418913/22 "2007-09-13T08:52:56Z")
[QUOTE=Rysdad] He might not even touch the bag at all. It’s sort of an “in the vicinity” deal. Of course, you can’t be too obvious about it, and you have to have had at least a reasonable chance at making the pivot had you _actually had_ your foot on the bag. [/QUOTE] I worked for a baseball team and we laughed every time fans would get in an uproar about this. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2007, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unwritten-laws-in-baseball/418913/23 "2007-09-13T08:57:48Z")
If the first two batters of an inning were retired on a single pitch each, the next batter must take the first pitch (never give the other pitcher / team the satisfaction of having a 3-pitch inning). ---
**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:** [September 13, 2007, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unwritten-laws-in-baseball/418913/24 "2007-09-13T11:29:44Z")
Never make the first or third out at third base. If you’re rounding second with nobody out, you better be sure you can get to third else you’ve squandered a chance for your team to have a runner in scoring position with none out. Likewise making the third out at third deprives the upcoming batter of a chance to drive you in, which he might just as easily do if you’re on second base. After preview I see it was in the linked list but I think this one merits its own post anyway. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2007, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unwritten-laws-in-baseball/418913/25 "2007-09-13T13:07:16Z")
[QUOTE=BobLibDem] Never make the first or third out at third base. [/QUOTE] To me, making the second out at 3rd base is also a big no-no. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2007, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unwritten-laws-in-baseball/418913/26 "2007-09-13T13:22:46Z")
[QUOTE=Stratocaster] If the first two batters of an inning were retired on a single pitch each, the next batter must take the first pitch (never give the other pitcher / team the satisfaction of having a 3-pitch inning). [/QUOTE] [Three Pitch Innings](http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~rickert/BB/threepitchinning.html) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unwritten-laws-in-baseball/418913.md?page=1)