Playing HH2K1, I was in the middle of the game at Three Rivers Stadium when my third baseman threw a runner out at first with a two-hopper. The announcer immediately called it as "a play common on Astroturf."

I'm not very wise on the ways of artificial grass (I guess I don't get out enough ), so it's possible everybody and their uncle does this and I've missed it. Is it done a lot? Why?