Comments on: Fun With Sacrifice Bunts in Postseason

By: Stat of the Day » Games ending by ROE

Stat of the Day » Games ending by ROE — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 13:02:38 +0000

[...] surprised that only one of these plays was on a bunt. As was discussed in a post by Steve, three World Series games have ended on an error on a play involving a bunt. And what the heck [...]

By: Stat of the Day » 1996 ALDS TEX vs NYY

Stat of the Day » 1996 ALDS TEX vs NYY — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:53:17 +0000

[...] finally ended in the bottom of the12th on one of the botched sacrifice bunts that was mentioned in one of Steve’s posts. Who got the win for the Yankees? Brian Boehringer. The series was tied, but now the Yankees were [...]

By: Steve Lombardi

Steve Lombardi — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:50:06 +0000

I totally forgot about that Charlie Hayes game - good find.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:04:15 +0000

Wow--that very first sac bunt you list ended the game. I searched and found that it's happened three times in the post-season:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/pi/shareit/X7Xx

All three plays involved errors, where a runner scored to break a tie and win the game. All three were in extra-innings.