Citations:intentional walk

English citations of intentional walk

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• 1991 July 17, “DiMaggio recalls the day ‘the streak’ ended”, United Press International:

  A pitcher by the name of Johnny Babich intentional walked DiMaggio in his first at-bat and tried again in his second.

• 1994 May 5, Jonathan Schmitt, "Re: Pedro Martinez: Dead by dawn?", in rec.sport.baseball, Usenet:

  He intentional walked him, that means he had no problems with loading the bases and facing Dan Wilson. Wilson is batting around 150. There were two outs. He intentional walked Anthony.

• 2001 April 29, “Bodenmiller's slam helps Dogs sweep Vols”, Athens Banner-Herald, OnlineAthens.com, Athens Daily News (April 30), Athens Newspapers Inc.:

  Tennessee opted to intentional walk Doc Brooks. However, Nicholson uncorked a wild pitch as Neufeld raced home.

• 2003 April 13, “Mitchell Hits Game Winner”, MT Media Relations, GoBlueRaiders.com, Middle Tennessee Athletic Communications:

  The Lady Raiders got another run when WKU decided to intentional walk Hieb to load the bases and then centerfielder Kip Phillips drew a walk scoring Grothause.

• 2005 June 24, “USA Junior Men open ISF World Championship with 6-5 win over Czech Republic”, Communications Center, Amateur Softball Association:

  After the earlier home run the Czech chose to intentional walk him for the second consecutive time to load the bases.

• 2006 October 3, Luther Root, "Re: Kenny Rogers", in alt.sports.baseball.ny-mets, Usenet:

  I just double-checked the box score; I always believed Rogers only intentional walked the first hitter he faced (perhaps a repressed memory of a traumatic experience).

• 2009 November 4, Chris Graddy, “The Intentional Walk”, The Graddy Report, CoachesAid.com:

  First off, if a manager and/or team is going to intentional walk a batter have the catcher stay in a crouched position.

• 2009 October 14, “2009-10 AFC Rules”, Auckland Softball Association:

  10. If you wish to Intentional walk a batter, you may ask to place him/her on base at any time before or during an at-bat.

• 2010 May 27, Chip Durham (interviewee), “UT Arlington Gets 5-4 Comeback Win over Nicholls”, Southland Conference, Southland.org:

  Earlier in the year we pitched to him and it bit us. We unintentional intentional walked him and the guy does a great job hitting behind him.

• 2010 June 18, Ken Waltz, “Fisher plows past Kiwanis in deciding Rockland Little League championship game”, Herald Gazette:

  Not to go quietly, however, Fisher rallied in the bottom of the seventh as McGonagle walked and sluggers Mazurek and Hendricks were intentional walked.