Rare Diamond Mind Baseball Plays

Plays You Don't See Every Day

Rare Diamond Mind Baseball Plays

Let’s take another look at some Diamond Mind Baseball plays you don’t see every day.

If you’ve forgotten, this series is a response to Derek Bain’s review of Diamond Mind Baseball — in particular his poor rating for Diamond Mind’s play by play system. You can read more in the first post in this series:

Let’s take a look at some of the plays you don’t always see.

Here’s an odd one. A play that normally results in a double play turns into nothing, since nobody covered the bag at second base. You don’t see it too often, but it does happen every now and then.

And here’s another:

Collisions aren’t actually all that rare in the game, but this particlar play just doesn’t come up all that often. It’s more frequent to see the ball fall out of the fielder’s glove.

These players need to work on their signals.

Now, this one needs a bit of context. It’s pretty common to see players claim to be hit by the pitch in Diamond Mind Baseball for whatever reason. It’s rare to see their claims upheld.

This is another really unusual one. Ever see the wind blow the ball back into the field for a catch?

This one is pretty similar, and isn’t quite as rare as some of these other plays. It’s not that common to see balls come back into fair play — and must be particularly rare in the pre-artificial turf era.

And then there’s stuff like this:

It’s obvious that this was put in the game to recreate replay challenges of home runs. However, it’s kind of off-putting and strange to see it in a game in 1949.