Re: Stats Gone Wild! Plus Triple-Play Bonus

On May 14, 5:05=A0pm, Blinky the Shark <no.s...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Greg Goss wrote:
> > "Roy Smith" <rdsmit...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> >>"Richard R. Hershberger" <rrhe...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>>news:54532257-4b9d-46cd-ab44-b1dd992307b1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >><snip>
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> >>Regardless of the truth of this, no pitcher can force batters to swing
> >>at the first pitch. =A0The 27 pitches-as-elegant theory suffers from
its=

> >>requiring the active cooperation of the other side.
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> >><snip>
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> >>Not necessarily. =A0A called strike on the first pitch is still a
strike=
.. =A0I'm
> >>not questioning the elagance theory, just the notion that a 27 pitch
> >>strikeout requires active cooperation from the batter...
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> > 27 pitches isn't a game-over unless every pitch is hit and results in
> > an out. =A0Three unswung pitches times three players times nine
innings
> > is 81 pitches if the opposing team doesn't co-operate.
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> Can anybody with the baseball goog-fu and the willingness to use it come
> up with a fewest-pitches perfect game stat?

Doubtful.  Pitch counts have only comparatively recently become a
standard thing.  The Dodgers kept pitch counts as far back as the
1950s, but this is an outlyer.

I'm sticking with Sidd Finch.  I see no reason to let the minor detail
of his being fictional deter me.