Did Dunn walk on 3 Balls....

[kaldaniels]

In his first at bat, I swear he takes 3 balls and heads to first...I even watched twice on Tivo...what did I miss people???

[flyer85]

In his first at bat, I swear he takes 3 balls and heads to first...I even watched twice on Tivo...what did I miss people???

that's what I thought unless that first pitch on the ground really wasn't called a strike

[deltachi8]

maybe they utilized the softball rule and just pointed to first?

[Caveat Emperor]

In his first at bat, I swear he takes 3 balls and heads to first...I even watched twice on Tivo...what did I miss people???

Here's what MLB.com has listed for the Plate Appearence:

Pitch 1 - Called Strike
Pitch 2 - Swinging Strike
Pitch 3 - Ball
Pitch 4 - Foul
Pitch 5 - Ball
Pitch 6 - Ball
Pitch 7 - Ball

Adam Dunn walks.

[muethibp]

In his first at bat, I swear he takes 3 balls and heads to first...I even watched twice on Tivo...what did I miss people???

Something confusing happened there because both my cousin and I thought Dunn walked on 3 balls too.

[registerthis]

Like ancient Chinese proverb says:

Confucius is wrong. Man with four balls cannot walk.

[RedFanAlways1966]

Perhaps FSN missed one of the pitches by showing current Albert Pujols stats or something?

[Johnny Footstool]

FSN definitely showed the count as 2-2 as Bush threw the pitch. Dunn took off for first, and I started chuckling a little.

I also could have sworn Bush asked the home plate ump if the count was 2-2 prior to throwing the pitch. I looked like the mouthed the words and held up two fingers. Of course, no one on the Brewers bench protested the walk, so maybe FSN just screwed up.

[Joseph]

FSN could never show the count wrong, don't say such things!

[Heath]

FSN could never show the count wrong, don't say such things!

never bite the hands tha feed you...

[medford]

Perhaps FSN missed one of the pitches by showing current Albert Pujols stats or something?

More likely, George was talking about Jim Edmonds, then felt obliged to talk about Albert.

[VR]

He saw six pitches.

1 called strike
2 fouls
3 balls


3 possible explanations....


We didn't see pitch one because of Jr's celebration
Pitch one was really a ball, even though the umps call seemed pretty clear
He walked with a 3 ball count

[Puffy]

This reminds me of the joke - what do you do to an elephant with 3 balls?

Walk him and pitch to the Rhino.

[TeamBoone]

FSN definitely showed the count as 2-2 as Bush threw the pitch. Dunn took off for first, and I started chuckling a little.

I also could have sworn Bush asked the home plate ump if the count was 2-2 prior to throwing the pitch. I looked like the mouthed the words and held up two fingers. Of course, no one on the Brewers bench protested the walk, so maybe FSN just screwed up.

FSN was messing up the counts all weekend during the Detroit series. It was driving me crazy.

And has anyone noticed the shoddy camera work this season? Often when they show a replay of a close call, they show the player throwing the ball and never show the actual close-call at the end of the play or the camera anagle is too high, cutting off our view of the close-call. Seems I'm continually griping about it to myself.

[RedsFanInMD]

My guess is that FSN missed a pitch during repeated showings of Griffey's home run. Also, Bush was working pretty fast up there.