{"id":649,"date":"2013-07-07T16:17:41","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T21:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=649"},"modified":"2014-05-27T16:32:41","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T21:32:41","slug":"deconstructing-dickeys-tricky-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=649","title":{"rendered":"The Art of the Bunt: Deconstructing Dickey&#8217;s \u201cTricky Hit\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.howstuffworks.com\/bunting.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/1\/1c\/Aki_bunts_lr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aki Iwamura lays down a bunt. Photo by imagesbyferg.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bunting, says Bill James of Sabermetrics fame, is \u201cthe only play in baseball that both sides applaud.\u201d But years ago, every player \u2013 even sluggers like Babe Ruth and Mickey Mantle \u2013 used bunting as a fundamental part of the game, and some coaches still prefer the bankable bunt when it comes to advancing runners, especially when a weak hitter steps to the plate.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever your viewpoint, there\u2019s little doubt that bunting is an art. Read on for the ins-and-outs of this venerable and controversial technique.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.howstuffworks.com\/bunting.htm \" target=\"_blank\">How Bunting Works<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bunting, says Bill James of Sabermetrics fame, is \u201cthe only play in baseball that both sides applaud.\u201d But years ago, every player \u2013 even sluggers like Babe Ruth and Mickey Mantle \u2013 used bunting as a fundamental part of the game, and some coaches still prefer the bankable bunt when it comes to advancing runners, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=649\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Art of the Bunt: Deconstructing Dickey&#8217;s \u201cTricky Hit\u201d<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[652,4,31,74,32],"tags":[661,81,655,653,664,660,669,663,5,137,654,656,662,658,659,667,666,668,657,41,665,670],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","category-history","category-how-to","category-physics","category-sports","tag-1975-world-series","tag-aerodynamics","tag-babe-ruth","tag-bunt","tag-coefficient-of-restitution","tag-dickey-pearce","tag-drag-bunt","tag-inelastic-collision","tag-inventors","tag-isaac-newton","tag-lou-gehrig","tag-mickey-mantle","tag-momentum","tag-moneyball","tag-sabermetrics","tag-sacrifice-bunt","tag-safety-squeeze","tag-slap-bunt","tag-squeeze-play","tag-statistics","tag-suicide-squeeze","tag-triple-crown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":740,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions\/740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}