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You Heard It Here First...
by Wilbur Wilke

March 8, 2005

Here’s a brain-teaser baseball riddle. How does a team, in their turn at bat, get two triples and four singles and not score a run? The hits may come in any order you select. Hint: You must invoke a rule to accomplish the feat. Answer at bottom.

Joe and Jack are good friends. They love baseball. That’s all they talk about whenever they get together. They wonder if there’s baseball in heaven. They make a vow after one of them dies, to get word back to the other, and let him know if there’s baseball in heaven. Jack dies, and Joe waits every night for word from Jack. After two weeks of waiting, finally a voice comes to Joe in the night.

“Is that you Jack?”

“Yes.”

“Quick,” Joe replies, “tell me, is there baseball in heaven?”

“I have good news and bad news,” Jack says.

“What’s the good news?”

“The good news is, yes, there is baseball in heaven, and we play every day.”

“What’s the bad news?” Joe asks curiously.

“You’re pitching tomorrow.”

The answer to today’s riddle is:
A triple, thrown out at the plate. Another Triple, also thrown out at the plate. Then 3 singles to load the bases. Then the Batter hits a ground ball that hits the runner. Rule says runner is out and batter is credited with a single.