USAGE/DEFINITION OF: Game-winning hit

awriter · Jan 7, 2007

bigpern23 said:

sportschick said:

dawgpounddiehard said:

Mystery Meat said:

The hit that provided the run that gave the team the lead for good is the game-winning RBI. So the home run is the game-winning hit. But readers are likely to think of the final hit as the game-winner. My suggestion: don't use it unless it's a hit that literally ends the game (the "walk off" home run, if you will).
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And don't use "walk-off home run" in your copy, either.
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Because one day, you might run into a hostile female copy editor out West who might kill over it if she's having a bad day
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Use walk-off home run. It is a tight, descriptive term that lets the reader know exactly what happened.

Game-winning home run is both longer and more vague. A game-winning home run can be hit in any inning. A walk-off homer can only be hit in the bottom of the last inning.

It is a well-known and well-understood term and, for the life of me, I can't figure out why some journalists get a burr in their saddle about it. [/end rant]
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I assume you were trying to be sarcastic, but in case you were not, walk-off homer is pure jargon. And it's inaccurate. The batter and runners (if any) can't just head straight to the dugout; they have to circle the bases.
Just call it a game-ending homer.

sportschick · Jan 7, 2007

bigpern23 said:

sportschick said:

dawgpounddiehard said:

Mystery Meat said:

The hit that provided the run that gave the team the lead for good is the game-winning RBI. So the home run is the game-winning hit. But readers are likely to think of the final hit as the game-winner. My suggestion: don't use it unless it's a hit that literally ends the game (the "walk off" home run, if you will).
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And don't use "walk-off home run" in your copy, either.
Click to expand...

Because one day, you might run into a hostile female copy editor out West who might kill over it if she's having a bad day
Click to expand...

Use walk-off home run. It is a tight, descriptive term that lets the reader know exactly what happened.

Game-winning home run is both longer and more vague. A game-winning home run can be hit in any inning. A walk-off homer can only be hit in the bottom of the last inning.

It is a well-known and well-understood term and, for the life of me, I can't figure out why some journalists get a burr in their saddle about it. [/end rant]
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I have never allowed walk-off home run to get into any stories I've been edited. Jargon at its worst. Wanna use it, go work for TV where that shit flies.

2muchcoffeeman · Jan 7, 2007

sportschick said:

I have never allowed walk-off home run to get into any stories I've been edited.
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That's easy for you to say.

Boobie Miles · Jan 7, 2007

awriter said:

bigpern23 said:

sportschick said:

dawgpounddiehard said:

Mystery Meat said:

The hit that provided the run that gave the team the lead for good is the game-winning RBI. So the home run is the game-winning hit. But readers are likely to think of the final hit as the game-winner. My suggestion: don't use it unless it's a hit that literally ends the game (the "walk off" home run, if you will).
Click to expand...

And don't use "walk-off home run" in your copy, either.
Click to expand...

Because one day, you might run into a hostile female copy editor out West who might kill over it if she's having a bad day
Click to expand...

Use walk-off home run. It is a tight, descriptive term that lets the reader know exactly what happened.

Game-winning home run is both longer and more vague. A game-winning home run can be hit in any inning. A walk-off homer can only be hit in the bottom of the last inning.

It is a well-known and well-understood term and, for the life of me, I can't figure out why some journalists get a burr in their saddle about it. [/end rant]
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I assume you were trying to be sarcastic, but in case you were not, walk-off homer is pure jargon. And it's inaccurate. The batter and runners (if any) can't just head straight to the dugout; they have to circle the bases.
Just call it a game-ending homer.
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Is that really the reason why people hate it? I'll buy the jargon reason, although I don't agree with it, we're writing for the readers and it's definitely the term they use (I know I'm gonna get ripped for that point with a million different examples of "Well readers call so and so this, so should we do that too?"... but whatever). As for the actual not walking off the field immediately, come on.

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