Posted on 03/16/2015 8:11:53 AM PDT by Osage Orange
Pat Venditte, the ambidextrous pitcher for the Oakland Athletics, was throwing in the bullpen during spring training recently and, as always, threw the same number of pitches right-handed as left-handed. After watching that session, Oakland manager Bob Melvin said, "He wears No. 74, but I swear, when I looked down at [the bullpen] a second time, he was wearing No. 47."
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And what does he do if the batter is a switch hitter?
He is from Omaha. I think my daughter went to school with his sister.
That would be fun to watch..!!!
Very unusual.
The situation has come up and with this pitcher. The batter kept switching back and forth and so did the pitcher. The ump finally the batter gets to choose and the pitcher cannot change back again.
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