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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
81 pitches? That would be impossible unless the the pitcher had a 180 mph fastball and the catcher was a Cyberdyne Systems Model 101 Terminator.

Maybe Greg Maddox against a Little League team. It would have to be someone with immaculate control because in all likelihood he'd have to throw 81 straight strikes. That's hard to do. Plus, he has to have enough velocity and/or movement to keep the hitters from making contact into fair ground (a foul ball would be okay as long as it wasn't done with two strikes).

If a 9-pitch, 3-strikeout inning is an immaculate inning, what would baseball people call 9 of them back-to-back-to-back for a full perfect game? Given that an immaculate inning has only been done about 100 times in the history of major league baseball, the odds of any player doing it 9 straight times is infinitesimally small. Probably like 0.[several hundred zeros] something.

29 posted on 05/12/2020 11:39:03 AM PDT by CommerceComet (Hillary: A unique blend of arrogance, incompetence, and corruption.)
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To: CommerceComet

To be fair, Greg Maddux once pitched a 76-pitch complete game, so if anyone could do it, he was the guy.


38 posted on 05/18/2020 2:39:27 PM PDT by MikeD (We live in a world where babies are like velveteen rabbits that only become real if they are loved.)
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