Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site fisher.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!astrovax!fisher!david From: david@fisher.UUCP (David Rubin) Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball Subject: Re: Orphaned Response Message-ID: <746@fisher.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 09:54:47 EDT Article-I.D.: fisher.746 Posted: Mon Aug 19 09:54:47 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 21:59:29 EDT References: <733@fisher.UUCP> <50300024@hpfclo.UUCP> Organization: Princeton University.Mathematics Lines: 19 >>> Actually in the case of an injury, any player can re-enter the game to >>> replace an injured player. And you don't have to force an outfielder who >>> hasn't played to replace an injured third baseman either. >> Incorrect. In only one specific instance, injury to the last >> available catcher, may a player return to the all-star game. > Well I'm probably wrong, but is Dwight Gooden going to play shortstop, > take a couple of hot shots from George Brett, Carleton Fisk, or Don > Mattingly, if an infielder is injured and he's the last player on the > bench, all the time risking HIS neck out there? > GET SERIOUS! > Bruce Rodean I'm only telling you what the rules are. If the NL ran out of shortstops, for example, due to injury, I think it more likely that Ryne Sandberg will get a try over there than Dwight Gooden! David Rubin