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June 19[edit]

Which of the following games can you continue playing after beating them?[edit]

Thanks in advance. --2003:DD:E72B:5FA9:C0AA:648:1A7E:A52D (talk) 08:44, 19 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Witcher 3 has side quests and add-on missions that you can play after beating the game. 97.82.165.112 (talk) 12:41, 23 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Stealing home[edit]

Stolen base#Plays involving baserunning

I don't understand one piece. The suicide squeeze is a squeeze in which the runner on third begins to steal home without seeing the outcome of the bunt; it is so named because if the batter fails to bunt, the runner will surely be out. Do all home-stealing attempts occur in suicide-squeeze or safety-squeeze incidents, and if not, how is a suicide squeeze more risky than a non-bunt pitch? Other parts of the article lead me to believe that home-stealing is occasionally attempted on non-bunt plays, when the runner just attempts to reach home before the catcher can tag him; a few sentences earlier, we read that A steal of home plate is the riskiest, as the catcher only needs to tag out the runner after receiving the ball from the pitcher. It is difficult for the runner to cover the distance between the bases before the ball arrives home. Nyttend (talk) 16:42, 19 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It's not a guarantee that the runner from third will be out, but it's pretty likely, since everyone can see the squeeze play coming. More daring is the "straight" steal of home, usually when it's not expected. The element of surprise can give the runner the edge. If you want to see a good example, here's Jackie Robinson stealing home in Game 1 of the 1955 World Series.[1] By the way, Yogi insisted to his dying day that he had tagged Jackie out. But he didn't quite get the glove down in time, as Yankee shortstop Phil Rizzuto told him during a Tim Russert interview. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 17:55, 19 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

A bit more context. A "straight" steal of home is one that is "on the pitcher": i.e. the pitcher was not paying attention to the runner and took too long to make his delivery and the runner used the element of surprise. In a suicide squeeze, everyone knows the runner is going. If the batter fails to bunt properly, the runner is going to be hung out to dry because there's no element of surprise like there is an a straight steal. Matt Deres (talk) 20:43, 20 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]