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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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(#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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(#2) Everyone Must Be Involved In An On-Field Fight
Baseball is the only sport where if a fight breaks out everyone must be involved in it. Often you will see the relievers jog in from the bullpen just to stand around and get in on the action.
Normally, you wouldn't want a 25-on-25 man-fight, but this is baseball and the unwritten rules state that everyone must come onto the field during a brawl.
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(#4) Don't Talk About A No-Hitter In Progress
Baseball remains by far the most superstitious sport of any of the major sports. If a pitcher is throwing a no-hitter, you will see him in the dugout by himself as no one wants to jinx him. This seems a little ridiculous since sometimes you might want to approach the pitcher about strategy, but this unwritten rule clearly states do not talk to the guy throwing a potential no-hitter.
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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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(#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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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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