He was the only base runner of the third inning.
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Both teams got a base runner on but nothing from it.
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Rivero struck out two and did not allow a base runner.
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He would not allow a base runner the rest of game.
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The Yankees did not manage another base runner until the ninth.
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Lester did not allow another base runner, retiring 13 in a row.
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He was just the second base runner McCullers allowed, and the last.
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Verlander has allowed one base runner since the Yankees' four-run first.
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Colome allowed one base runner while working three scoreless innings in the series.
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Francisco Liriano (3-1) allowed one base runner in an inning of work.
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Seven-Year-Old: But doesn't the base runner hope he drops it, too?
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While he stole only seven bases, he is an astute and swift base runner.
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Maeda gave up his first base runner of the postseason and they lifted him.
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"I remember him telling me about Bagwell being a great base runner," Goldschmidt said.
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Besides that home run, he has not allowed a base runner and has K'd 5.
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An inning later, Jerry Blevins entered the game and inherited a base runner and an out.
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Hess did not allow a base runner until Morales led off the fifth with a single.
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Their only other base runner was Hicks, who walked as a pinch-hitter in the seventh.
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Or the chances that a specific base runner will reach third base on a specific single.
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It tied the score at 3-3 and led to the last base runner the Mariners had.
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Glasnow hit Greg Allen with a pitch in the sixth, the only base runner of the inning.
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Brandon Nimmo, who walked with one out in the ninth, was the only other Mets base runner.
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The Yankees challenged, and the call was reversed, giving the Yankees their first hit and base runner.
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It's hard to blame Boone for feeling desperate, as Verlander has yet to allow a base runner.
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The Roberts court upheld the exchanges, but not because the interpretive tie went to the government base runner.
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But Washington did not have another base runner until Brian Dozier walked with two outs in the eighth.
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Randal Grichuk gave the Blue Jays their first base runner of the game when he walked with one out.
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That was the last base runner for the Braves (11-210) until a walk and error in the sixth.
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Although he did not allow a base runner this time, he looked tired and threw more sliders than usual.
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Hyun-jin Ryu matched David Price's scoreless inning and did him one better by not allowing a base runner.
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The injury occurred on April 26 in Anaheim, when Moustakas made a tag of a base runner at third base.
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A Chase Headley sacrifice fly made it 4-0 in the third, before Tanaka had allowed his first base runner.
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The Yankees managed only one other base runner — Chase Headley's leadoff single in the eighth — the rest of the way.
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I guess we didn't want to pitch around him because every run counts, every base runner counts in the playoffs.
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Duffy registered a 2.973 in game score, a Bill James metric weighted heavily toward low-base-runner, high-strikeout performances.
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Weaver didn't give up another hit or allow another base runner until Butler led off the eighth with a single.
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Leadoff man Santana worked a two-out walk, and the Indians had a base runner for the third consecutive inning.
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The Blue Jays had their first base runner when Justin Smoak doubled to lead off the bottom of the fifth.
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Every base runner was precious, and pinch-hitter Ty Kelly singled with one out in the bottom of the eighth.
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He must hit for power and have a work ethic; he must run well and be a smart base-runner.
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The Angels' first base runner came in the sixth when Kaleb Cowart reached on Ketel Marte's two-out throwing error.
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Rowdy Tellez walked with one out in the bottom of the fifth, the Blue Jays' first base runner of the game.
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The Royals never even managed a base runner off Pineda in those innings, but Dillon Gee made their early damage count.
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The Astros got their first hit of the game, but they were not able to do anything with the base runner.
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Wright cruised through four innings before Max Kepler became Minnesota's first base runner with a one-out hard-hit single to left.
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If the Orioles (in the above instance) are still trying to win by getting a base runner on, that is a noble cause.
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That would be akin to working a walk, bunting the base runner over and then getting a solid single to score a run.
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Snell (13-5) had six strikeouts without allowing a base runner before being replaced by right-hander Jake Faria to start the sixth.
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Ryu (03-20) did not allow a base runner through five innings before finishing with a four-hitter, striking out six and walking none.
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The lefty allowed only one base runner through the first four innings, but wasn't the same when he took the mound in the fifth.
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Me: Because when the ball is in the air the base runner isn't allowed to get to the next base unless the ball drops.
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Yasiel Puig gave Los Angeles a base runner when he singled on a fly to left-center that Andrew Benintendi could not run down.
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The Blue Jays had their first base runner when Luke Maile led off the bottom of the sixth with an infield single against Faria.
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But despite allowing a base runner in every inning Thursday, he avoided big trouble and gave up only two runs over 6 43/3 innings.
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That was the only time he allowed a base runner after the home run, and he retired 12 of the final 13 batters he faced.
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Hill was unfazed by the base runner, striking out Jose Altuve and then getting out of the inning when Carlos Correa grounded out to third.
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Cuba starter Vladimir Banos went five innings and allowed only one base runner on a single from Yang Shunyi with one out in the fifth.
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Judge keeps tabs on how often he is scoring from second base on a single or advancing from first to third as a base runner.
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DeGrom allowed only one other base runner — on a walk by Ryan Howard in the eighth inning — but he erased that by inducing a double play.
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He retired 25 of 26 — the lone base runner coming on a fourth-inning walk — after giving up Logan Morrison's three-run homer in the first.
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Aquino singled, sending the base runner back to second and completing an even more bizarre endgame: One hitter recording two at-bats at the same spot.
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But there was nothing routine about the play or the base runner, the son of the mayor in Moncks Corner, S.C., a small town north of Charleston.
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Christian Yelich walked with one out in the first inning, the only base runner for either team before Yelich walked again to kick-start the Brewers' fourth.
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They hit no threatening balls and had only one base runner until Brett Gardner coaxed an eight-pitch walk from Odorizzi with one out in the seventh.
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The Blue Jays (54-63) started a threat in the bottom of the sixth after Josh Thole walked with one out, their second base runner of the game.
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The Indians' only base runner before that hit was a walk to Yonder Alonso in the second, and he was erased when Cabrera hit into a double play.
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Aside from Luis Valbuena (3-for-3 with a walk), Pineda did not allow a base runner until he loaded the bases with two outs in the sixth.
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McCullers gave up a single to Gardner, the first batter he faced, and allowed only one other base runner — Todd Frazier on a leadoff walk in the eighth.
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Initially, at the start of the 2017 season, intermediaries would relay decoded information to an Astros base runner, who would signal the information to the batter, MLB found.
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This is actually a really impressive performance by Verlander, who has retired 10 in a row and has allowed only one base runner since the four-run first.
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"The Fed is like a base runner stuck between first and second base on a fly ball," said Matt Forester, chief investment officer of BNY Mellon's Lockwood Advisors.
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The playoffs have been a grab bag for Machado, who is many things: a gifted hitter, an overaggressive base runner (when he actually runs) and a magnet for controversy.
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For the second time in three games, Robert Gsellman entered a critical juncture of the game for the Mets, got two outs but allowed at least one base runner.
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His latest wrist injury occurred two weeks ago when his hand hit the bat of the Phillies' Aaron Altherr while he was trying to throw out a base runner.
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"It's kind of a crazy rule, but that's the rule," said Headley, who had the same play happen to him — as a base runner — when he played for San Diego.
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"To me, it's more important that he throws a quality pitch and gets the batter out at home plate than worrying about the base runner," Rivera said of his pitcher.
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The Rangers have the best record in the American League, and so far their adversity is Prince Fielder, the round-bodied DH and avant-garde base runner, hitting .187/.257/.288.
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Molina homered, drove in two runs, denied a base-runner with a pivotal out late in the game and helped guide the pitching staff through nine innings of one-run ball.
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The Dodgers got their first base runner of the day when Justin Verlander walked Chris Taylor to start the inning, but the Dodgers were not able to do anything with it.
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He retired the next 15 Orioles (69-66), didn't allow a base runner after that, and had a career-high 10 strikeouts overall with just one walk through seven shutout innings.
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The Rays did not have a base runner until Choi singled to lead off the fourth to end a string of 30 straight batters retired by Toronto pitchers starting in Saturday's game.
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Turner made Keuchel pay for the base runner by crushing an 87 mile-per-hour cutter over the wall, with the crowd in Dodger Stadium exploding in cheers for the popular player.
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Swinging as hard as he could again, he blasted the ball about as high as it was long and the fans, led by base runner George Springer with his arms aloft, erupted.
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Salt was rubbed in the Mets' wound when they went on to lose, 2-1, in 10 innings, which only served to highlight how vital Cabrera had been as a base runner.
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RHP Matt Wisler (13-7) allowed a base runner in every inning Thursday, but he avoided big trouble and gave up only two runs in 6 2/3 inning against the Braves.
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Who could forget J. T. Snow scooping up little Darren Baker, son of Dusty Baker, then the manager of the San Francisco Giants, before an onrushing base runner in the 2002 World Series?
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Brandon Snyder had a two-out double in the third inning, the Rays' first base runner off Hamels, who hadn't allowed a run until the Rays scored three times in the sixth inning.
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The base runner did not faze Verlander, who froze Joc Pederson with a curveball for a called strike three and then got out of the inning when Logan Forsythe flew out to right.
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He was erased on a force-out that left Jed Lowrie at first, and Davis took advantage of the base runner to get his team within a grand slam of tying the game.
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He was also the first Cubs pitcher to retire at least four batters without allowing a base runner in a major league debut since Gene Fodge on April 215, 232 against St. Louis.
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Arizona catcher Caleb Joseph walked with one out in the third inning, the first base runner off Giants starter Shaun Anderson, and scored on Locastro's two-out single for a 1-0 lead.
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It's not something he has to use every pitch, it's just something that the base runner has to know he has and that he will use and it will slow them down a little bit.
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With Kershaw out of the game after five solid, but unspectacular, innings, the Dodgers turned the game over to their stout relief corps, and over the next four innings it didn't allow a base runner.
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He retired 13 of the first 14 batters and did not allow a base runner until Chris Coghlan's one-out single in the fifth — one pitch after left fielder J. B. Shuck dropped Coghlan's foul ball.
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He tells them to use their right foot, and to step only on the outside of the bag, because a base runner once stepped on the back of R. A. Dickey's foot and Conti never forgot.
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But Bird was ruing the moment he could not deliver, when he was shielded slightly by Machado, the base runner at first, and watched helplessly as the ball ticked off his glove and into right field.
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Roberts's Dodgers have their own standout relief pitcher: Kenley Jansen, who allows an average of far less than one base runner for each inning he works and has converted 19573 of 40 save opportunities this year.
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But Fiers retired Voit on a grounder to third, and then settled in, allowing only one base runner until the seventh: Hicks, who had a fourth-inning single but was quickly erased when Sanchez grounded sharply into a double play.
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Toward the end of Wednesday's hourlong show, Mr. Watters and his fellow hosts marveled at a wild baseball play in which a base runner leapt over the catcher to score a run, then he segued abruptly into his vacation announcement.
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Walker was so raw that, in his first summer as a pro, as a base runner for the Utica Blue Sox, he crossed the diamond from third to first — without touching second — after an outfielder unexpectedly caught a fly ball.
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McCullers reacted to the base-runner by hitting Justin Turner with a pitch for a second time — it was McCullers' World Series record-setting fourth hit batter — but he got some help from Cody Bellinger when the rookie struck out on five pitches.
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They finally got their first base runner off Justin Verlander when D.J. LeMahieu walked to start the top half of the fourth and Aaron Judge made Verlander pay for that mistake by blasting a slider over the center-field fence for a 423-foot home run.
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Dodgers 24, Nationals 20 | Los Angeles leads series, 266-43 WASHINGTON — The natural inclination with every passing base runner against Clayton Kershaw in the fourth and fifth innings on Friday was to look at the visitors' bullpen in left field at Nationals Park, which was an odd feeling with the best pitcher in the sport on the mound.
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