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The Intentional Walk The question is: “Does it (the intentional walk) change the game?” “I think so. But it's worth thinking about. Every time you take the bat out of Barry's hands, you're taking some of the entertainment out of our game. I had personal experience with this, with Mark McGwire. ”-Tony La Russa (manager of the Cardinals.) I read this quote in ESPN Magazine a few months after the Giants lost the World Series to the Angles last year. The intentional walk is a big part of the game of baseball. It has been helping pitchers pitch around tough batters since the beginning of time. The intentional walk is caused when a batter of out standing capabilities comes to the plate, the pitcher weather he is great or just good is in a situation where it would be better for him to just walk the batter of out standing capabilities, rather then take the chance of pitching to him. The catcher will either take the sign from the manager or the manager will call for time and talk to the pitcher himself. After everything is clarified, the pitcher will step up to the mound and look in for the sign. By this point the catcher has already risen from his comfortable squatting pos