this one bothers me..

I distinctly remember, as a lad (lo these many), listening to radio broadcasts (and maybe Dizzy Dean on the tv?) wherein pains were taken to differentiate between "hit & run" and "run & hit", akin to the difference to a "squeeze play" and a "suicide squeeze". that is, in each of the former instances the runner waits to see if the hit/bunt is successful; in the latter events, the runner leaves with the pitch.

I don't know when run & hit was dropped from the lexicon; perhaps there was a hit-and-run incident.