What does batting around mean?

[crissfan172]

If the inning ends with the 9th guy up, then you haven't batted around because you haven't come back to the original point. Just like a circle is complete when your pencil is at the exact same point as it was when you started, batting around is completed when the exact same batter who started the inning is up again.

Except a lineup is discrete, not continuous like the circumference of a circle.

I don't know which is correct. I'm not sure anybody really does, unless they know where it originated from. It seems more likely to me that the intention was for the answer to be 9, though the literal definition of the term would indicate 10. Who knows?

[crissfan172]

You don't start with 9. You start with 1. Batter number 1. The first batter of the inning. If the inning ends with the 9th batter, then there's a gap from 9 to 1.

If you use this example, the length of the AB would be from one number to another. Therefore, if the 9th guy makes an out, the hand would be resting at 1 afterwards. Thus completing one full rotation.

[JohnnyEutaw]

Around has a circular reference. When you complete one circumference of a circle from a point on the circle back to the same point, you have gone "around" the circle. You do not have to pass the point. 9 is the answer

But the circle is not complete with 9 hitters, as we did not get back to the leadoff man. There is a small hole in the circle.

[ledzepp8]

No, if you start at 9, the circle is closed when you get back to 9. I believe you have batted around after the conclusion of the 9th AB. As soon as his AB is over, the circle is closed.

But you don't start at 9. You start at 1.

[getfoul]

I probably would have said when all nine batters come up in the same inning, that's batting around. Now that it's been pointed out, ok, the first guy has to come up a second time.

[Redskins Rick]

But you don't start at 9. You start at 1.

You start at the batter #1 for that inning, and only when he gets back up to bat, you have gone full circle and batted around.

[ledzepp8]

If you use this example, the length of the AB would be from one number to another. Therefore, if the 9th guy makes an out, the hand would be resting at 1 afterwards. Thus completing one full rotation.

The hand wouldn't be resting there until the team bats in the next inning. Therefore they didn't bat around unless the guy that batted first in the inning, bats for a second time in the inning.

[ledzepp8]

You start at the batter #1 for that inning, and only when he gets back up to bat, you have gone full circle and batted around.

Of course.

[crissfan172]

The hand wouldn't be resting there until the team bats in the next inning. Therefore they didn't bat around unless the guy that batted first in the inning, bats for a second time in the inning.

But as soon as the batter comes up a 2nd time, there's an overlap. So there shouldn't be a hole if he doesn't come up again. Theoretically, it should be complete since there should be no gap between the end of the 9th AB and the start of the 10th.

[crissfan172]

But as soon as the batter comes up a 2nd time, there's an overlap. So there shouldn't be a hole if he doesn't come up again. Theoretically, it should be complete since there should be no gap between the end of the 9th AB and the start of the 10th.

Of course, you could argue that the circle is measured in time, not AB's. Thus, the time it takes to finish the next half-inning could be a hole.

Great...now I'm arguing with myself.

[Mayor McCheese]

LOL this is silly.. batting around is only when the leadoff hitter of the inning comes up to hit for the second time in the same inning. If that does not happen then they did not technically "bat around"; if nine players end up batting they just bat through the entire order.

[PaulFolk]

LOL this is silly.. batting around is only when the leadoff hitter of the inning comes up to hit for the second time in the same inning. If that does not happen then they did not technically "bat around"; if nine players end up batting they just bat through the entire order.

I've always interpreted "batting around" to mean "batting through the entire order." So nine would do the trick.

[ledzepp8]

But as soon as the batter comes up a 2nd time, there's an overlap. So there shouldn't be a hole if he doesn't come up again. Theoretically, it should be complete since there should be no gap between the end of the 9th AB and the start of the 10th.

Huh? Look use a clock, (and I know a baseball lineup only has 9 but it's the same difference) you start at 12 noon (1st batter of inning) and get to 11 pm (11th batter of inning) and 11 pm makes the 3rd out. Has the clock gone all the way around to 12 am or is it still at 11 pm, until the next time up?

Or use my walk around the block example. If you leave the house and walk around your neighborhood, have you made it all the way back around if you end up next door instead of your house (where you started from)?

[olehippi]

10....because its an even number

10....because of Bo Derek

10....because it completes the circle (as in "around")

[Redskins Rick]

10....because its an even number

10....because of Bo Derek

10....because it completes the circle (as in "around")

A good supporting argument.