what is a rubbermatch in major league baseball?
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A rubbermatch is the deciding game in a three game series.\n\nSo each team has to win one game, whomever wins the rubbermatch wins the series.
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In the old days, players used to bet condoms on which team would win the series.  If the series was tied 1-1 it was the rubber game that decided which team got to keep the condoms.
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The last answer was almost right, but not quite. Usually, a pitcher's breaking ball will break away from a similarly handed batter i.e. a southpaw's curve will tail away from a left handed batter and into a righty. Matching up like this helps minimize the hitter's power, as the hitter has to either take the pitch the other way or try to turn it over, which leads to a lot of ground balls on the hitter's pull-side. It's a lot harder to hit an opposite field homerun than to pull a curve a little inside and take it a long way.
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It is a supplemental pick that takes place between rounds in the MLB draft (the picks are sandwiched between the first and second or second and third rounds).\n\nSandwich picks are given in compensation for losing a free agents.  The rules governing draft-pick forfeiture are byzantine at best but, essentially, a team that loses a free agent gets a draft pick from the player's new team as compensation (assuming the old team is still in position to take the player to salary arbitration). The compensation pick might be the signing team's pick, a "sandwich pick," both, and/or a later pick.\n\nThe free agent rules can lead to some bizarre results.  For example, if you lose a free agent you get the signing team's regular pick and the bonus sandwich pick; but when you sign someone else's free agent, all you lose is your regular pick.  So, if you swap your free agent for someone else's, you both swap regular picks and then everyone nets those bonus sandwich picks.  As a result, there is disincentive to re-signing their players. The Red Sox are masters at this.
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the pitcher can stand on the mound but he can not act as if he is going to pitch to the next batter, he can get on there and play with the resin but he can not touch the rubber( see second link). Florida marlins 3rd baseman mike Lowell pulled this trick successfully twice last year. link to story is attached. hope this answers your question.
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There are several types of changeup, which are generated by using different grips on the ball during the pitch.\n\nThe most common type is the straight change. The ball is held with three fingers (instead of the usual two) and closer to the palm, to kill some of the speed generated by the wrist and fingers. This pitch generally breaks downward slightly, though its motion does not differ greatly from a two-seam fastball.\n\nAnother common grip is the circle changeup. The pitcher forms a circle with his index finger and thumb, using these two fingers to grip the seams of the baseball. This pitch tends to break slightly in the same direction as a screwball. \n\nAnother, less common, grip is known as the Vulcan change, where the pitcher wedges the ball between his middle finger and ring finger. Its name derives from the grip looking similar to the "Live long and prosper" hand gesture used by Vulcans, a fictional extra-terrestrial race depicted on the television series Star Trek. This pitch's break resembles a forkball, going straight downward
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the deciding game of a series.......exampl e 3 game series both teams have won one game..........that would make game three the rubber match
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that has to do with baseball how????
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Sorry, but I don't play video games, so I don't know if this fits your criteria.  I think Albert Pujols of the St. Louis Cardinals is one of the purest players I've ever seen.  I'm not a fan of the team, but I think he's an amazing player.
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Lol..why is this in the baseball section?
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do u mean like where the guy tags the base after the ball has been caught and advances?\nif this is what u mean, then no. because if there are two outs and the ball is caught then that makes it three outs and that half of the inning is over so it would be pointless to tag
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RUBBER MATCH - "A 'rubber match' or 'rubber game' or simply 'rubber' in any sport means a deciding contest between two tied opponents. The term dates back to the late 16th century but no one seems certain of its etymology or in what sport it originated. The expression was not used in card games until the mid 18th century and the earliest recorded use of it appears to be a 1599 reference, cited in the 'Oxford English Dictionary,' to the game of bowls. The word 'rubber' in the term seems to derive from a word of unknown origin, not the resilient substance called 'rubber' or the verb 'to rub.'" From "Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins" by Robert Hendrickson (Facts on File, New York, 1997).
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It is called the pitching rubber.
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During the 1921 season, pitchers complained that they couldn't get a good grip on the shiny, slick, undoctored surface. Umpires began rubbing the balls before games, a practice that continues today. MLB's official game-ball preparation calls for umpires to rub the balls with Lena Blackburne's Rubbing Mud, which one representative of the Major League Umpire's Association describes as smooth and creamy, but with a fine grit. The composition of the mud is a closely held proprietary secret, but the base ingredient is known to be mud from a specific site in a tributary of the Delaware River.
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It is all in the grip.  I think the only difference between a major league change-up and any other is being able to locate them consistently.  The mechanics is the same.\n\nSee the link below for some illustrations.