If a player hits a home run in MLB, are they allowed to stop at a base if they want to?

Question

Say a team is down by 2 runs in the bottom of the 9th. With the bases empty, batter A hits a solo home run. However, they need two runs, not one. Let's say batter A knows the next hitter has a higher average with runners in scoring position than without, so batter A stops at third base while rounding the bases to increase the odds that the next hitter will get a hit. Is this legal?

Answer 1

The odds that an MLB player would know that the guy hitting behind him has a slightly higher batting average with runners in scoring position is pretty astronomical. For that player to try to give up a home run and a run for his team that's down by two runs for that reason would be even more bizarre.



Plus it makes no sense. Your team is down by two runs. A guy hits a solo homer, now you're down by one run. The next guy gets a single, so the winning run's at the plate. Or...You're down by 2 runs and a guy hits a solo homerun and stops at third. so you're still down two runs. The next guy gets a single, runner from third scores. You're down by one run, with the winning run at the plate...just like if the guy hitting the homerun circled the bases in the first place. Even if it was legal, it would be foolish.

Answer 2

No. He would be fined by the team.

How does this childish act increase the odds that the next hitter will get a hit?

Answer 3

NO, the MLB is a serious business and wouldn't allow for players to engage activities that would make their business look like a joke. It's OK in pro wrestling, but not baseball. Most pro wrestling fans know before they are 18 that the league is phony, it takes MLB fans to reach the age of 50 before they discover the same thing in pro baseball. You have to give pro baseball a lot of credit. Many fans go to their graves not knowing MLB games are fixed. IT'S A BUSINESS FOLKS, JIM BROWN TRIED TO TELL US THAT ABOUT THE NFL BEFORE HE WAS 30. All Pro sports is phony.

Answer 4

Why would he stop? If they needed two runs and he hit a homer, why would he not just score so his team would only be down ONE run?



This question is really dumb...

Answer 5

um not really, because if you get a home run that means you score a run, and your team wants as many runs as they can get

Answer 6

Isn't that what Big Papi does?

Answer 7

No