Bone Head Plays

You got to love em. I got to thinking about a play I did in HS. I was playing third. Ball hit to me. I quickly scooped it up and made a nice swift throw to 2nd for the DP. Yeah!!! Only problem was that there was no one covering the bag. It was a perfect throw. No one covered the bag because there was no one on 1st. Not a DP ball.

Balls bounces almost to the fence. Batter gets a double.

Bone Head.

 

Nice Play Glove Side!

That's a good one.......Did you field the ball Left/Right or Right/Left????? LOL



I remember a guy stealing second base on a ball that was swung at and missed. I mishandled the pitch and picked it up and tossed it back to the Pitcher. To my surprise the runner was jogging back to 1b! We threw to the First Baseman and he politely tagged him out. Our 2b had very calmly and quietly told the runner that the pitch had been foul tipped and that he needed to go back to 1b. He lied! Can you imagine a baseball player lying? It was a tight game if I remember correctly and their coach just about came unglued at the runner. The umpire just shrugged his shoulders. What could he say? Hehehehe

 

Mine came in a rec basketball league in a league championship game in Raleigh back in the day (mid-80s). Tie game, opponent on the linel and we call our last time out to ice him. There are about two seconds on the clock. During the time out, I MYSELF remind everyone that we are out of TOs. So the guy misses, I grab the rebound, and before my brain gets in gear, I yell "TIMEOUT!" as the buzzer sounds. Needless to say, I get T'd up, they make the technical shot, and we lose. To this day, I do not know how it could have happened.

 

In a high school game in Charlotte, I saw a left handed pitcher throw a pick off to first base but there was no runner over there. He had advanced to second on the previous pitch which got by the catcher for a passed ball. Now the runner is at third.

We had a second baseman play for us for two summers who's now at Lenoir-Rhyne, he tried to start a double play without a runner on base. Just a brain fart that day, this kid was usually as sharp as they come. From then on, at least once a game, I'd yell at him at the start of the inning to remind him there are no outs. He'd always grin and give me a wave.

 

High School Basketball!
I am a senior and we are having a prep rally to start the season. All the players are introduced one by one in front of the whole school (approx. 2000).
Well, we start the lay up drill and when the ball first comes to me, I start to go up in the air and the ball flies out of my hand and lands 10 rows in the bleachers behind the basket.
The people that know me asked if I had done that on purpose. I thought about it for a second, and replied, ..... Yes! Little did they know!

 

That story reminds me of a play that happened in my Legion days. Our shortstop (Matt Griffin, now Lexington Legion HC) stole second and the shortstop for the other team also indicated it was a foul ball. As he started back to first, he got into a rundown which he eventually beat at first. The very next pitch, he stole second - again. I've joked with him many times that he is the only guy I've ever seen that stole second, then first, then second again it a matter of two pitches.

 

Top this one!

Coach F-3 can back me up on this one. It is legendary in Southern Durham baseball history.

1977 Southern Durham vs Wake Forest Rolesville. At the old Southern Durham school the baseball field set up on a hill behind the football stadium. Of course the track was just on the other side of the beachers. The SS from Southern gets a ball in the hole to his right and lets it fly towards first. The ball sails and goes over the first basemans head. Oh it also goes over the football bleachers. And it finally ends up at the track where it hits a kid in the head sprinting for the track team to the wire in the 100 yd dash. The kid falls out and never makes it to the finish line. Guess who the SS was? Me. I have never lived that one down. Coach F-3 played a few years after I graduated. He still reminds me of it. And so do many other people. It was crazy. Hey it slipped!

 

My son was in his senior year and playing in the wooden bat fall league and he had a brain fart on base like the one already mentioned but this time all the fielders had one too.

My son stole 2nd and the pitch was in the dirt. He apparently thought it was foul for some reason and starts just walking back to 1st. I see this and I am about to have a heart attack. I can't yell at him or anything or the fielders would notice then. The catcher just lobbed the ball back to the pitcher and the pitcher just toed the rubber and never looked back at my son. He walked all the way back without the fielders ever even noticing. When he was almost back the 1st base coach yells "get on the bag"!!! Then the pitcher looks up like "what's that all about"? Then the other coach comes out of the dugout and yells "wake up"!! On the very next pitch he stole 2nd again. Then he stole 3rd. Until the game was over and I told my son what he had done he didn't even realize that ball wasn't fouled off.

 

Good Hose Coach27!

Always look at the positive! Not to many guys have that kind of carry from deep in the SS hole! You the man!

One time we were in the 3B dugout and I was walked (BB). I turned to toss my bat underhand towards the dugout but my batting glove and bat were so dang sticky with pine tar that the bat kinda stuck in my hand and I wound up tossing it a little (a lot) high and left of my target. It landed in the front row just next to the dugout. Thankfully, nobody was sitting there but I got a good ribbing about it. After that I just tossed it a few feet from home plate and didn't risk doing that again!

Testosterone and Adrenaline! The Ultimate Molitov Cocktail!

 

I'm so glad you guys are telling these stories because I now will never let you forget them.

Of course, I don't have any bonehead plays that I can remember...well, there was this time.....nah, I forgot.