https://www.mlb.com/cut4/baseball-player-loses-homer-doesn-t-touch-home
No matter how little you might know about baseball, one rule is simple:
Hitting the ball over the fence is good! That's a homer, no matter if you're
playing in the Majors, the Minors, Little League or your company's goofy
corporate retreat game, where the CEO's nephew is calling strikes on pitches
5 inches off the plate. Easy enough, right?
Well, you'd think so, but there is an exception. You have to touch all the
bases. Mark McGwire almost skipped first base on his record-breaking 62nd
homer of 1998 and had to go back to tag the bag. It's a slightly odd rule,
but it's a rule nonetheless ... as Astros prospect Miguelangel Sierra learned
on Wednesday with the Fayetteville Woodpeckers.
Sierra launched a fifth-inning pitch over the left-field wall for an apparent
dinger. Everything proceeded normally as he rounded the bases and jumped onto
home plate. The only problem was that he never actually landed on home