Clueless scotsman at a baseball game

[Garp]

A recent Scottish immigrant attends his first baseball game in his new country and after a base hit he hears the fans roaring "Run....run!"

The next batter connects heavily with the ball and the Scotsman stands up and roars with the crowd in his thick accent: "R-r-run ya bahstard, r-run will ya!"

A third batter slams a hit and again the Scotsman, obviously pleased with his knowledge of the game, screams: "R-r-run ya bahstard, r-r-run will ya!"

The next batter held his swing at three and two and as the ump calls a walk. The Scotsman stands up yelling: "R-r-run ya Bahstard, r-r-run!" All the surrounding fans chuckle quietly and he sits down confused. A friendly fan, sensing his embarrassment whispers, "He doesn't have to run, he got four balls."

"Walk with pr-r-ride man!"

[Belmit]

Dude.

[Feek]

If I understood how the American version of rounders works, perhaps I'd find it funny. Or maybe not :p :garp:

[Darrin]

For each pitch you have a possibility of three outcomes. Ball, strike or hit.

A hit means you run like hell for first base.
A strike means you swung at the ball and missed hitting. Three of them and you're out.
A ball is where a pitch is outside of the "hit zone" and you didn't swing at it. Four of them and you get "walked", which means you saunter unmolested to first base and the next hitter comes up.

Hence the "The next batter held his swing at three and two and as the ump calls a walk." which means he had two strikes and three balls and didn't swing at the last pitch, which meant the fourth ball and the umpire "walks" him.

The joke part of course being that the lad has four balls...