May 7, 2008
It may have its place in baseball, but bunting is an awful way to try to get on base in wiffleball. In fact, in Major League Wiffleball, you can’t. Check the rulebook (Rule 5.04). An intentionally bunted ball will be recorded as a strikeout.
However, if the ball is bunted in fair territory it’s still a live ball, and baserunners can attempt to advance at their own risk. The batter is immediately ruled out and the out is recorded in the scorebook as a strikeout.
In this situation, the batter is encouraged to run to first base in an attempt to confuse the pitcher and fielder.
A ball bunted foul is a strike, just like in regular baseball. Bunting foul with two strikes is also a strikeout.
Having a penalty deters batters from bunting and keeps the game moving along.
The only time it might be worth trying to lay down a bunt is in a tie game in the last inning with a runner on third and less than two outs, but that’s it. Actually, that would be a great time to bunt, and would be an exciting play to watch.
It would take a real team player to pull that off though, since they’d not only be sacrificing their own stats, but helping the runner’s and pitcher’s stats at the same time.
You’re simply better off just swinging away.
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May 4, 2008
Kenny Mayne, the guy who used to host SportsCenter on ESPN, and is now seen only for special events like the Kentucky Derby, recently released a book titled ‘An Incomplete and Inaccurate History of Sport: . . . and Other Random Thoughts from Childhood to Fatherhood’.
Inside, there are three chapters (in a row) dedicated to wiffleball (or as Mayne calls it: wiffle ball). He doesn’t call it ‘whiffleball’ though. He hates when people spell it that way.
Mayne says that ‘wiffle ball’ is the second greatest sport to tackle football, and everyone knows it. While I would argue that wiffleball is better, I should point out that in his book he also said that horse racing is the second greatest sport to tackle football. He may have said the same about other sports; I haven’t read the whole book yet.
Perhaps the most amazing part of Kenny Mayne’s book is in the first ‘wiffle ball’ chapter. Back in 1972, in Kent, Washington, Mayne’s friend Mark Sansaver hit 843 ‘wiffle ball’ home runs. He broke Babe Ruth’s home run record (at the time) in one summer!
Overall, the book is great so far. Anyone who enjoyed watching Kenny Mayne on SportsCenter will like this book. If you’re interested, you can learn more about it out here: An Incomplete and Inaccurate History of Sport: . . . and Other Random Thoughts from Childhood to Fatherhood
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May 1, 2008
So you just blew a 3-run lead in the last inning and lost the game.
You’ll never pitch again, right? Wrong. Sure, it’s a little disappointing, but it’s a game. It’s not Major League Baseball, it’s wiffleball. For many people, it ranks somewhere around hopscotch and Chinese checkers. It’s not a big deal.
We’ve had our share of outbursts in MLW. It happens to all of us. We’ve had bats thrown and wrist watches smashed after a strikeout, buckets of wiffleballs kicked over after allowing a home run, and lots of swearing in general. While there’s nothing wrong with showing a little frustration when you’re overtaken with emotion, once you do it, you’ll probably wish you acted differently.
The best thing you can do is laugh it off, and maybe even congratulate the person who got the best of you. Just try harder next time, and you just might upset someone else instead.
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April 29, 2008
Two weeks ago, we offered Boston Red Sox slugger David Oritz the option to join Major League Wiffleball. Yesterday, on ESPN Radio’s The Herd with Colin Cowherd, host Colin Cowherd suggested that Prince Fielder should quit baseball and join a wiffleball league. Well, we at Major League Wiffleball would be glad to offer Fielder a tryout as well.
Cowherd is very unhappy with Fielder’s hitting, or lack thereof this season. Cowherd drafted Fielder in the first round (10th pick overall) of his National League-only fantasy baseball league draft earlier this year. After the draft, Cowherd was told Prince Fielder had become a vegetarian in the offseason, and a quick look at his dismal spring training numbers made it pretty clear that Fielder was in need of a steak or two.
With April just about over, Fielder has a .244 batting average, down over 30 points from his career average, and only 4 home runs, which puts him on pace for under 30 homers this year. With the MLW single-season home run record only being 28, there’s still time for Prince Fielder to put up big wiffleball numbers this year.
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