Walk Off

[R1Letterman]

And the Ducks walk it off 9-8.

The term walk off has run its course.... they hype it up yet are actually using it wrong. It was not meant to be a celebratory term, it was quite the opposite..... The term walk-off originated as "walk-off piece," and was coined by Hall of Famer Dennis Eckersley. ''It was always walk-off piece," Eckersley told the Boston Globe. "Like something you would hang in an art gallery. The walk-off piece is a horrible piece of art."

The first reference to walk-off came in a July 30, 1988, story in the Gannett News Service: "In Dennis Eckersley's colorful vocabulary, a walk-off piece is a home run that wins the game and the pitcher walks off the mound."

Walk-off piece was only intended to describe a pitcher's dejected walk off the field after giving up a game-losing home run

[CajunVic]

Walk-off piece was only intended to describe a pitcher's dejected walk off the field after giving up a game-losing home run.

Home run or not, the pitcher always seems to walk off the field in a dejected walk, whether it be generated from walks or hits given up by him or errors committed by his brethren . . . the feeling is the same . . .

[R1Letterman]

Once a game goes to extra innings saying walk off is not necessary if they just say the home team won in extra innings.

[R1Letterman]

Walk-off piece was only intended to describe a pitcher's dejected walk off the field after giving up a game-losing home run.

Home run or not, the pitcher always seems to walk off the field in a dejected walk, whether it be generated from walks or hits given up by him or errors committed by his brethren . . . the feeling is the same . . .

Yeah. And With all these speed up rules as.well.as.signs and communications there is almost no point for the manager to go all the way to the mound to "get the ball" and remove the pitcher.

[cajun55]

Thanks for reminding me about that 1988 walk-off piece from Eck against Gibson and the Dodgers. As a huge A’s fan as a kid that game put tears in my nine year old eyes.