Phillies playing Astros and
Eagles playing Texans tonight
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They should have scheduled Sixers vs Rockets to complete the trifecta
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And a Mike Schmidt vs Hakeen Olajuwon steel cage death match.
Rather see Greg Luzinski or Ryan Howard
There was a very āun-baseballā like remark that one of the commentators made last night during the Phillies-Astros game. Late in the game he said that āthe Phillies really had a chance to smash Verlander in the face during the second inning.ā Maybe he covers hockey or football in addition to baseball as baseball commentators are usually less graphic. There was a long period of silence after the remark as his partner was probably not sure how to respond.
I saw an article on FB that had a description that said that after wild rallies the Phillies āwere unable to plate the tying run.ā Has anyone ever heard scoring a run termed that way? I was thinking it meant getting the tying run to the plate, but they did that with every batter but one in the 9th, didnāt they?
Common phrase. Plate, means to score, not to get to bat
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it is a common term, plating
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First Iāve heard of it. Probably those younger broadcasters who binge-watch the Great British Bake-off, and to whom I do not listen.
Gretchen, stop trying to make āplatingā happen, itās NOT going to happen!
Twin towers. It should be 2 on 2.
Exactly. To plate is to reach home plate safely.
Yet when they compile statistics, they have runs, not plates and they have plate appearances which are not runs scored. Just saying.
I donāt disagree with you and I might have heard āto plateā meaning to score a run, but if I had, it was deep in my memory and I didnāt recall it immediately.
It is known, Khaleesi. I donāt even have to ask my baseball fanatic trivia friends.
Maybe slightly confusing, but being used as a v.t. makes it clearer than a hypothetical usage āHe plated.ā FWIW not all baseball terms are official baseball statistics terms.
It is a somewhat new term, stupid kids taking over the TV profession.
I feel like Iāve heard that terminology my whole life. Definitely some old school (and some now retired) broadcasters, wouldnāt say itās new.
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True, but āplate a runā can really only mean one thing IMO. I rarely, if ever, hear the term āplateā or āplatingā not followed by āa runā or ārunsā or something pretty close to that.
I mean when we discuss the batter making his way to first base we usually say he āranā to first base, which doesnāt mean that he scored a run. You have to look at the words in context, not in isolation. Similarly the word āhitā can mean that the batter was hit by the pitch, the batter got a base hit, or less frequently but not rarely that another player or umpire or fan was hit by a ball or the bat or a portion thereof, or even another player or coach if a brawl breaks out. Itās usually pretty obvious what they mean though.
Similarly in football if the down is āfirst and goalā that has nothing to do with kicking a field goalā¦ the context is hugely relevant.
I canāt believe weāre still going on about āplating runsā itās a term I recall hearing as long as Iāve been listening to baseball. Itās just not terribly common usage.
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really, I never heard that term
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