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(#12) Don't Show Up Your Fielders
Another unwritten rule centered around respect. When a fielder makes an error, this unwritten rule prevents the pitcher from throwing his arms in the air or acting frustrated that his teammate behind him couldn't make the play. A fielder doesn't throw his hands up in the air when a pitcher gives up a home run. It is a natural reaction to show emotion on the field, but once again, a player must be careful not to show up anybody when displaying emotion.
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(#8) Don't Steal Bases When you Have a Big Lead
Baseball is a game all about respect. If someone feels like you are not respecting the game, measures will be taken. This unwritten rule revolves around stealing a base at an unnecessary time. Teams don't like you "showing them up" when it's a blowout and they feel that you should just go base to base when you have a big lead.
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(#13) Don't Run Up The Score In A Blowout
In Little League baseball, they play with a mercy rule not to hurt anyone's feelings. In the Big Leagues, you play the whole game until the final out. Somewhere along the line, it became an unwritten rule to not run up the score on players making millions of dollars. This is ridiculous for many reasons, but mainly because teams come back from big deficits all the time and you don't want to be the team that loses because you were sparing a grown man's feelings.
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(#9) Never Make the First or Third Out at Third
This unwritten rule purely revolves around strategy. Second base is considered scoring position so if you are there with nobody out, there is no need to risk going to third when you can still get there with only one out. With two outs at second, you can be driven home by a base hit, so the unwritten rule is why risk taking third in those situations? This is a little ridiculous because there are 25 more ways to score from third base than second base.
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(#17) Don't Throw A Curveball To A Fellow Reliever
Rarely do relief pitchers get a chance to hit as they are most likely going to be pinch-hit for if their spot in the order comes up. So when they do get that rare chance, it is a pretty special moment for them.
Relief pitchers have an understanding with each other not too let the other one look too foolish out there, so usually they will throw them only fastballs in order to give them at least a chance to put the ball in play.
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(#6) If A Pitcher Hits A Teammate, Hit One Of Theirs
This unwritten rule just stands by the old saying, "an eye for an eye." If you hit one of ours, then one of yours is going down as well. This is a ridiculous unwritten rule for many reasons. The main one being that you are throwing a baseball 90 MPH at someone and it has the potential to hurt them and possibly ruin their career.
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Baseball is a popular sport with a long history. There are not only clearly stated rules, but some well-known unwritten rules have also been developed. There is no policy that a player can not have these behaviors, and people who violated unwritten rules will not be punished in principle, but will be annoying, or will be considered by the opponents and the audience as an unmannered behavior.
If you often watch baseball games, then you must have seen some conflicts and resentments between teams caused by unwritten rules. There are some short descriptions and available videos that show random 17 ridiculous unwritten rules of baseball.
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