Talk:Rundown

Why is it called a pickle?[edit]

Why is it called a pickle? - this comment left by 24.60.254.119

A pickle is a colloquial phrase for a difficult situation to get out of.

Disambiguation[edit]

Anyone want to help me disambiguate so I can do an article on the Jamaican soup known as rundown? ChildofMidnight (talk) 21:03, 19 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Escaping a Rundown[edit]

There is one other way in which the runner can escape being put out: if he runs into one of the fielders who doesn't happen to have the ball at the time, he may benefit from an "interference" call by the umpire. Good fielders learn to get out of the baseline area as soon as they've thrown the ball so as to avoid this possibility. WHPratt (talk) 16:44, 20 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Pickle vs. Rundown[edit]

Does anybody else disagree that rundown has overtaken pickle over the years? WikiHogan654 (talk) 12:56, 21 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Not I. But I think the game played by three children using two bases deserves a separate article. When I was a kid, we called it "baserunner" and "rundown." I may have heard it called "pickle" as well. A friend of mine tells me it was called "hotbox" when he was a kid. Cf. the Nero Wolfe novel "Prisoner's Base " (the game Darebase )which is a similar non-baseball game. (several edits) [Special:Contributions/76.253.72.116|76.253.72.116]] (talk) 01:45, 9 July 2015 (UTC)Eric[reply]

Baseball assessment comment[edit]

The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Rundown/Comments (baseball), and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

This short article can be deleted and any information it conveys now be put in the List of baseball jargon. There is already an entry there for rundown/pickle.

Last edited at 00:52, 3 July 2007 (UTC). Substituted at 14:24, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

Doesn't Mention the Strategic Aspects of a Rundown[edit]

As in, if there's a more advanced runner, the runner in the "pickle" has to remain untagged, even if he's doomed, so as to give time for the more advanced runner to score or at least get to third base. In fact some rundowns are provoked intentionally for this purpose (a runner trying to steal second when there's a runner on third).

This is also another way (not mentioned in the article) for a rundown to end: if the runner on third scores with the winning run in the bottom of the ninth. 68.196.1.236 (talk) 20:33, 26 June 2020 (UTC)captcrisis[reply]