The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for August 24, 2014
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Transcript:
The Born Loser by Art & Chip Sansom Gladys: How was your game? Wilberforce: We lost again. Gladys: I'm sorry your team lost. Did anything noteworthy happen? Wilberforce: Well, a new kid joined our team and he's left-handed. Gladys: Oh? Is anything different because he's left-handed? Wilberforce: It's kinda the same, except the opposite. Like he wears his glove on his right hand, not his left... Wilberforce: And when he bats, it's from the other side of the plate. Gladys: I get it - and if he hits a pitch, he runs to third base instead of first, right?
Aussie Down Under over 9 years ago
Looks like no one in the family is very bright.
Plods with ...™ over 9 years ago
Nope…. still don’t get it.
Dani Rice over 9 years ago
Actually, being left-handed, I understand perfectly. Can’t tell you how many times, as a kid, I ran to third instead of first. Collided with more other players…they finally let me stop playing.
ChessPirate over 9 years ago
I’m a lefty and there were some differences when I played in Little League. As a batter, I got more walks than any other player, and as a pitcher, the batters had a lot of trouble with a ball that was coming at them from a different place.
danlarios over 9 years ago
duuuuuh
JustPlainBob over 9 years ago
…and if he comes all the way around to home plate, it’s minus one run.
platechick over 9 years ago
hahahaha. ya, I was simply going to say “yes”!
english.ann over 9 years ago
Okay, everyone, I really had no idea until today that there really are people like Gladys Thornapple, who think it’s right for left-handed batters to run the bases clockwise.My father was left-handed, and he ran the bases counterclockwise, so I never got the idea that anyone ran them clockwise. The bases are run counterclockwise, probably because most infield players are right-handed; it’s easier for them to throw the ball to basemen by throwing to their right (where the baserunners run, to get to the next base or home plate) than to throw the ball across their bodies (to their left). Left-handed batters have the advantage over right-handed batters, in that their batter’s box is an average of five feet closer to first base than the right-handed batter’s box.