With one out and runners on the corners, Joc Pederson's drag bunt scored Turner from third.
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"I loved acknowledging the subtle arrogance of Hall of Famer Rod Carew's drag bunt," he said.
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Jon Berti drew a leadoff walk, and Isan Diaz's drag bunt became a single when the rookie dove into first.
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Mike Freeman executed a surprise drag bunt with two outs in the seventh inning to give Cleveland a 23-1 lead.
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Hernandez opened the fourth inning with a drag bunt single past Minor and eventually scored on a single by Sam Travis.
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He got a single on a drag bunt — Harvey should've tried to let it roll foul but picked it up and had no play.
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Phillies 1, Mets 0 The lone highlight for the Mets on Saturday night occurred when the Phillies' Freddy Galvis tried to surprise the infield with a drag bunt on Bartolo Colon's first pitch of the sixth inning.
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This is called a drag bunt. Left-handed batters perform this more often than right-handed hitters, because their stance in the batter's box is closer to first base, and they do not need to run across home plate, where the ball will be pitched, as they bunt. The action of squaring to bunt is compromised during a drag bunt, as the feet are not set. Players sometimes get one hand up the barrel, and other times bunt with both hands at the base of the bat.
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Keith Foulke relieved Wunsch and Rickey Henderson entered as a pinch runner; Javier's sacrifice bunt toward third moved Henderson to third. David Bell walked on four pitches and then pinch hitter Carlos Guillén swung and fouled off the first pitch. He then drove in the series-winning run with a walk-off drag bunt past a diving Thomas.
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In his first major league plate appearance, he reached first base safely on a drag bunt, driving in the game-winning run in the eighth inning. Carrera was optioned back to Triple-A Columbus on May 26, 2011. In a series of recalls and options, Carrera spent 68 games of the 2011 season with the Indians, hitting .243 with 14 runs batted in and ten stolen bases.
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Pesky (wearing number 6) runs after hitting a drag bunt, from an early 1950s film. Pesky began the 1952 season slowly, and by mid-June he had played in just 25 games, batting .149. He was traded to the Detroit Tigers in a nine-player deal, in which the Red Sox also traded Walt Dropo, Fred Hatfield, Don Lenhardt, and Bill Wight and acquired Hoot Evers, George Kell, Johnny Lipon, and Dizzy Trout. Tigers' manager Fred Hutchinson had Pesky mentor Al Kaline.
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But Davalillo, noticing Ted Sizemore playing unusually deep at second, shocked the Phillies with a drag bunt for a single. Lasorda then sent another pinch hitter, Manny Mota, to hit for pitcher Lance Rautzhan. Mota, on an 0–2 pitch, sent a deep drive to left that Greg Luzinski reached, but the ball caromed off his glove, onto the wall, and back. Luzinski threw to second to try to nail Mota, but his throw skipped wildly past Sizemore allowing Davalillo to score and Mota to reach third.
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Starting pitcher Curt Schilling took a perfect game into the eighth inning, when, with one out, Davis laid down a successful drag bunt single, to second baseman Jay Bell. After Davis reached base, many of the Diamondbacks' players shouted obscenities at him for supposedly breaking baseball's unwritten rules. After the game, Diamondbacks manager Bob Brenly called Davis's play "chicken". Many analysts still debate Davis's decision to bunt for a base hit, as the Diamondbacks were only leading by a score of 2–0, which brought the tying run to the plate for the Padres.
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384 batting average in , when he was called up by the Los Angeles Dodgers in August. As a pinch hitter and a defensive substitute, he posted a .313 batting average in 24 games for the Dodgers in 1977, helping them win the National League West Division crown. Davalillo is remembered for his clutch, pinch hit performance against the Philadelphia Phillies in Game 3 of the 1977 National League Championship Series. Trailing the Phillies 5–3 with 2 outs in the 9th inning, he spearheaded a 3-run rally, when he surprised the Phillies by executing a two-strike drag bunt and beating the throw to first base.
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