your right that it is kind of a bonehead play as the only other possible advantage I could think of and its a stretch, is that he could draw the throw to 3rd and be safe, that would have gone home, saving an out by a slower runner at the plate. Now that you point out that’s its bad play, It might be as hi as 250/ 500-1, walk off doubles to walk-off triples.

 He was running hard most of the way to third, then let up the last 10 feet. He’s super fast so It’s possible he made it there at the same time as the runner scored as the camera was on him, not the runner scoring.

It’s defiantly very odd, but a fast runner at home running 270 feet could easily get to third faster than an even average speed runner gets first to home. 5-10 feet isn’t a whole lot to make up out of 270. I don’t know that this is in fact what happened, but it wouldn’t be nearly impossible. There wasn’t a play at home or anywhere else.

I guess the next question is if there was a truly slow runner at first, and Davis had went for an inside the park HR, and touched home plate a fraction of a second after the runner from 1st did what would the official scorer do?

how did you navigate and find that information on Retrosheet?

There should be some kind of exception rule, like if the outfield is in, and someone hits the winning hit to the warning track on a fly and the runner on third scores, he sould be credited with moer than a single

for the percents, clears up the whole fanpost

I’ll guess there weren’t any walk-off IBBs, that’d probably be considered poor strategy by the losing teams’ manager

There’s that

Passed Ball: 23
Hit By Pitch: 16
Errors: 269
Stolen Bases: 21 (although I wouldn’t be surprised if that was a steal and an error)
Wild Pitches: 144

I don’t have a good count of sac flies, but there were 585 that were walk-off outs. I’d assume most of those are sacrifice flies.

And there were 5 walk-off strikeouts, probably because the ball got away. I might want to look into those some more.