Achievements never seen in MLB (theoretical possible)
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That is probably the most unlikely yet theoretically possible feat imaginable.
Every pitch would need to be swung at and made contact with. Then a defensive out.
Good idea.
3 hits (all singles). 4th batter gets a single, with a force-out at home. 5th batter gets a single, with a force-out at home.
Then the 6th batter gets out in any fashion.
Very unlikely, but theoretically possible.
Yes.
Especially if they were to play against Rick "Wild Thing" Vaughan from Major League.
He walked the bases on 12 straight pitches and then gave up a homerun to the next batter.
But you could win a game 1-0 if an opposing pitcher even threw 4 pitches and hit your batter 4 straight times.
You could even win a game after 1 pitch. A hit-by-pitch followed by a pickoff move that goes past the 1st baseman and the guy from 1st scores.
Unholy Diver
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In theory you could do it in zero pitches, the manager could do the pointing intentional walk to each batter and then the pitcher could pick them off
Know Your Enemy
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Would the force out at home be considered a fielder's choice for the batter? Unless maybe the ball was hit to left field.?
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No hitter losses have happened but check this out - with the new extra innings rules with a runner on 2nd, you can throw a perfect game and lose it!! Perfect game through 9 innings but your team is say the Mariners and didnt score a run. In extra innings, runner starts on 2nd; and 2 sac-flys later you have 29 straight outs, no hits against, no batter getting on base and 1 run against.
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Hockeyholic
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What about a 110 mph fastball?
Right handed batter with a splash hit home run in SF.
90 minute 9 inning game
Right handed batter with a splash hit home run in SF.
90 minute 9 inning game
Terry Yake
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that's a good one. never thought of it but not surprised because when do you ever see guys crush a ball the opposite way
Hockeyholic
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I think Jeter once hit a home run that got into the upper deck in right field. This was at old Yankee Stadium. And granted it barely got to the upper deck.
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While never common, this was not uncommon back when batters stayed in the box and pitchers threw the ball promptly. The shortest 9-inning game on record was apparently 51 minutes long (28 September 1919, Giants versus Phillies, first game of a double-header).
Unholy Diver
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Hunter Greene hit 105 in a B game in ST this year, 11o will probably be hit within a decade
KevFu
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Someone throwing a 110 mile an hour fastball has probably already happened: Nolan Ryan.
There's a great documentary (was on Netflix, probably on Prime now) about Fastballs. They talked about the methods attempted to measure pitchers.
Nolan Ryan got clocked at 100.8 mph in the ninth inning of a start for the Angels in the late 70s. But they measured the speed AT HOME PLATE, which is not how they do it now. (and the tech was terrible). They measure the speed of MLB pitchers now using StatCast measurements 10 feet from the pitching rubber, not the plate.
When you account for the 50 feet of drag, Ryan's 100.8 mph pitch would clock in at like 108 today. And that was his like 150th pitch of the night.
Pitching Ninja lined up some of the famous Nolan Ryan clips from the 70s, versus Chapman and Jordan Hicks 105 mph pitches and did the side-by-side, and they look pretty much the same. But again, those two modern guys were closers, and Ryan was a starter. And all the famous Ryan clips are from late in games.
Ryan was a superhuman beast. His last MLB pitch ever, at age 46 was using more modern measuring tech... it clocked in at 96 mph, and on which his frayed UCL finally snapped.
Everyone trying to "mythbust" Ryan hitting 108 has failed to do so. And pretty much every clip they use is when he was in his 30s. When he was in his 20s, he probably hit 110.
