Double Switch In Baseball

• It is harder to explain than to do or demonstrate. I'll try to be precise and concise, something difficult for me to do. Your # 8 batter just made the 3rd out ,now your team is in the field. Next inning, your #9 batter - the pitcher - is the first one up. But you gotta pull your pitcher now (it's a tie game) - so you bring in a right-hander. He would normally go right into that #9 spot - but you could pull your #8 hitter (let's say 2B) and replace him at the same time you change the pitcher. The manager (you) could then tell the ump 'Two new guys - What is in at 2B, will bat in slot #9, Tomorrow is pitching and will be in the #8 slot.' Next inning you have a 'REAL' hitter, What, up at #9 and you don't have to pull Tomorrow right away for a pinch-hitter. Gives you the chance to use him for a couple of innings before #8 and you have to decide if you can afford to let him bat. When you replace two, or more, players at the same time you can decide who will bat where, no wait. Who already has a batting position, and Where is never in a game where When is. Why? Maybe Because they both play shortstop and we got another one of those anyway.

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• Nelson Brockabrella
  
  In a double switch the manager replaces two defensive players--one always the pitcher--at the same time with two other players, each of whom takes the lineup slot formerly occupied by the other's departed counterpart. This is done (a) to bring in a relief pitcher but (b) not make him come to bat early the next time his team bats. Typically, the starting pitcher bats 9th in the lineup (though Tony La Russa, manager of the Cardinals, has been batting pitchers in the 8 slot the past couple seasons). The other players, called the position players, bat 1-8. With a simple one-for-one player substitution, a relief pitcher would assume the starting pitcher's 9 spot in the lineup. If the 9 spot was due to bat the next time the team came to the plate, the relief pitcher could bat, but this usually means an out, since relief pitchers don't get many chances at the plate in a season and are in general the worst batters in baseball. An alternate is to have a pinch-hitter replace the relief pitcher at the plate, but then the pitcher is out of the game and has to be replaced on the pitching mound by yet another relief pitcher to start the next (defensive) half-inning. With the double switch, the original pitcher is replaced in the lineup not by another pitcher but by a position player--say a right fielder who just batted in the 6 slot--at the same time that the original right fielder is replaced by the relief pitcher. In the field the pitcher is replaced by a pitcher, and the right fielder is replaced by a right fielder, but the new right fielder will bat in the original pitcher's 9 slot in the lineup, and the new pitcher won't have to bat until the original RF's 6 slot. The next time the team comes to bat, when they get to the 9 slot, there's no question about letting the relief pitcher bat or pinch-hitting for him, since the better-hitting RF is now in that slot. If the team doesn't bat all the way back around to the 6 slot (now occupied by the relief pitcher), then when they take the field again, the relief pitcher is still in the game.

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• Charger
  
  It's mostly done in the National League. it's when teh maager pulls the pitcher and anoteh player at the same time, inserting the other player's replacement into the pitcher's spot in the order and the new pitcher into the other player's spot. The idea is to avoid having the pitcher come to bat the following inning. For example, the pitcher is due up third and the second baseman made the last out. The manager pulls both players. The new pitcher bats in the place of the 2B and the new 2B takes the pitcher's spot that is coming up in the following inning. I play computer baseball and I do this a fair amount. It's not a bad strategy later in the game.

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• jaygee
  
  used mostly in the NL when a pitcher is taken out of the came and another player get removed late in the game so the pitcher can stay in and not bat for another nine attemps for his team. Pitchers usually are the lesser batters and therefore the team wants to delay the spot by switching batting spots at that time/

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Interference must be willful and deliberate for a double play to be called. Neon genesis evangelion angels anime. Otherwise, only the runner is out. If interference is on the first play, runners return to base occupied at time of pitch.

Breach and clear fallout 76. 31. MULTIPLE SUBSTITUTIONS AND DOUBLE-SWITCHES

Rule 5.10(b) Comment [former Rules 3.03, 3.06]:

When a manager makes two or more substitutions at the same time, the manager must, at the same moment, advise the plate umpire of the names of the substitutes, their defensive positions, and in what place each will hit in the batting order. The manager cannot give notice of one of the substitutions, leave the umpire, come back to the plate umpire, and then locate the other player in the lineup. In case the manager fails or refuses to make a decision, the plate umpire is authorized to decide the necessary batting order changes, and the umpire’s deci-sion is final. Just as soon as the substitutions are legal, announcements should be made over the public address system. (The P.A. announcer should not make announcement of any substitution until so advised by the plate umpire.) Play: A manager goes to the mound and talks with the pitcher. The plate umpire goes out to break up the conference, and while on the mound the manag-er informs the umpire that the manager wishes to make a double-switch.

Ruling: Legal, provided the manager has not signaled to the bullpen prior to informing the umpire of the multiple substitution. A manager may give the umpire a double-switch while defensive players are entering the playing field. However, in the unlikely event that an unannounced pitcher takes a position on the pitching rubber before the manager confers with the umpire, Official Baseball Rule 5.10(j)(1) [former OBR 3.08(a)(1)] provides such pitcher to have entered the game. In such case, a subsequent attempt by the man- ager to make a double-switch shall not be allowed. Again, the opposing manager should be informed of multiple substitutions and should be given the proper batting position of each substitution. NOTE: When the manager goes to the plate umpire to inform the umpire of a double switch involving a new pitcher, the plate umpire should immediately sig-nal to a base umpire to go to the bullpen for the new pitcher. This speeds up play significantly as opposed to the base umpire having to wait until the conference with the plate umpire is completed and then watching for the manager finally to signal to the bullpen. In such cases, the plate umpire should give a clear signal in case there is more than one pitcher warming up. Also see Interpretation #32 (“Signal to the Bullpen”).