Where does the term ” walk off ” in baseball come from?
Bobby, Levittown, NY, USA
That’s a great question. A “walk off” win is when a home team wins by scoring a run in the bottom of the ninth inning or the bottom of any extra inning. If a team were to hit a home run to win the game, it is called a “walk off home run”. It comes from the fact that the losing team has to “walk off” the field, usually with their heads down in shame. Though it doesn’t really make sense because the winning team doesn’t “walk off”, they “run on” the field and usually jump around, mob each other and act like children. It is a new term popularized only in the last 20 years and used heavily on ESPN’s SportsCenter.
