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Posted By: Bob C
Here is an interesting three-part, moderately difficult trivia question: |
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Posted By: Jon Canfield
Ok - just read question 1 quickly and I'm probably wayyyyy off, but... |
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Posted By: Bob C
Jon you are spot on. Nice. |
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Posted By: Joe D.
1. |
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Posted By: Matt
Yep - Feller did in 1940. This could actually technically happen during the season as well, although it never would. Every batter could walk and then get picked off. |
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Posted By: Dan Bretta
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Posted By: Bob C
Too easy...you guys are good...but wait, his RC? |
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Posted By: Rob D.
Ticket stub from the game: |
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Posted By: Jodi Birkholm
An extra bit of trivia which is likely of zero interest to card collectors: The toughest autograph of any person on the field that day is by far that of umpire Lou Kolls, who was killed in an automobile accident the following year. |
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Posted By: Eric Brehm
I like Joe D.'s answer better -- a game where no player on the losing team records a single At Bat. Until a player has at least one At Bat, they don't have a batting average. Zero divided by zero is indeterminate. Although .000 is what they display on the scoreboard for each player at the beginning of opening day, so I'll go along with it. |
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Posted By: barrysloate
How can you have six hits in one inning and not score a run? |
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Posted By: Matt
Barry - first 2 get hits then get picked off. Next 3 get singles to load the bases. Last batter gets a single but runs out of the base line after it becomes an official hit and before the runner crosses home. |
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Posted By: barrysloate
If you run out of the base paths I'm not sure you would get credited for the single. |
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Posted By: Matt
that would do it as well - good question. I would imagine if he ran out of the base path after rounding first that would do it as well, but getting hit by a batted ball is certainly a more likely solution. |
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Posted By: DD
Theoretically, what is the fewest number of pitches a pitcher can throw in completing a 9 inning game? |
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Posted By: Matt
24? |
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Posted By: DD
Less than that |
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Posted By: pas
0? |
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Posted By: leon
-1 |
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Posted By: T206Collector
<<1. Under what circumstances in a nine inning MLB baseball game, would EACH player on the losing team have EXACTLY the same batting average at the end of the game as EACH of them had at the beginning of that same game?>> |
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Posted By: Dan
The answer is 9. If I recall correctly, the first batter of the inning hits a triple on the first pitch. He attempts to steal home and the batter is out due to batter interference and the runner returns to third. This happens the for the next two batters, this senario happens for the next 8 innings. This is theroretical and would never happen, but I remember reading this as a correct solution. |
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Posted By: pas
I believe an umpire can call a ball if the pitcher fails to pitch within a certain amount of time, or illegally goes to his mouth. So, do that 4 times in a row to each batter and then pick him off first. |
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Posted By: barrysloate
I would guess the fewest number of pitches is nine. |
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Posted By: leon
I do think there are several theoretical scenarios where the # of pitches could be 0.....it's really not that difficult to imagine though obviously it would never happen.... |
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Posted By: pas
You can't balk a batter to first. |
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Posted By: leon
OK....revert to #1 |
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Posted By: Matt
great question! If the pitcher played for the home team and they were winning in the 9th, then he would only need to pitch in 8 innings, even though it was a nine inning game, so all those guesses of 9 could be 8. Of course, if 0 works, then it doesn't matter. |
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Posted By: Bob C
Feller's RC is 1936 Bob Feller International News Photo which, I believe, was actually a card. It was issued 9 Days after his debut. |
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Posted By: Jon Canfield
Matt - that is not correct... regardless if the pitcher was on the home team or not, the visiting team would still get 9 innings against him. |
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Posted By: Matt
Jon - Doh! Of course you are correct. |
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Posted By: Peter Thomas
A game called after 5 innings could be 5 pitches. |
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Posted By: DD
I believe the answer is 9, at least according to the Ripley's Believe It Or Not cartoon I read about 35 years ago, where I first saw this question posed. |
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Posted By: Matt
Peter - the question presupposed a complete 9 inning game. |
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Posted By: leon
If the game is 9 innings then the answer could be 0 I think... |
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Posted By: Matt
If the pitcher didn't die of dehydration first, that would work to get a 9 inning 0 pitch game. |
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Posted By: pas
"Hit" only counts once. |
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Posted By: DD
Hit |
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Posted By: howard
Peter, I believe a batter can be balked to first. If I'm not mistaken certain actions are considered balks even in the are no baserunners. In these cases the batter is awarded a ball. Four of these and voila! |
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Posted By: Matt
MLB official definition of terms: |
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Posted By: Todd Schultz
a catcher can balk, although it's charged to the pitcher. |
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Posted By: pas
I do not believe a batter ever is awarded first base on a balk. Show me, if you would, a rule that says otherwise. |
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Posted By: pas
you have 7 of the 9 i had in mind |
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Posted By: Dennis W.
Add runner's interference to the list of ways to reach first. If a batted ball hits a base runner the runner is out and the batter is awarded first - I believe it's ruled a hit. |
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Posted By: Ken Wirt
I believe that when a fielder throws his glove or any other part of his uniform at a batted ball in an attempt to stop it, all runners (including the batter/runner) are awarded three bases. |
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