gmt
08-23-2010, 05:28 PM
Just reading random articles and ran across this in the St Louis Post Dispatch:
http://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/birdland/article_b6f0b2be-aeca-11df-8195-00127992bc8b.html
Read down to the bottom where it talks about least amount of pitches thrown by a pitcher in a complete game 9 inning shutout.
How many would you guess? 60? 50? Try 39. Cardinals vs Giants inj 1979.
The first 8 batters on the Giants swung on the first pitch and made an out. 24 Giants batters swung and hit a ball fair on the first pitch thrown.
Talk about being aggressive at the plate...
http://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/birdland/article_b6f0b2be-aeca-11df-8195-00127992bc8b.html
Read down to the bottom where it talks about least amount of pitches thrown by a pitcher in a complete game 9 inning shutout.
How many would you guess? 60? 50? Try 39. Cardinals vs Giants inj 1979.
The first 8 batters on the Giants swung on the first pitch and made an out. 24 Giants batters swung and hit a ball fair on the first pitch thrown.
Talk about being aggressive at the plate...