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Monday, April 21, 2008

Infinite Pitcher Abuse Points

I'm sure many of you have seen this article related to Japanese high schoolbaseball but several folks sent it my way today and I hadn't...

School team hit for 66 runs in two innings

I especially like this quote:

The hapless hurler had already sent down over 250 pitches, allowing 26 runs in the first inning and 40 in the second before Kawamoto asked for mercy.

"At that pace the pitcher would have thrown around 500 pitches in four innings," Kawamoto's coach was quoted as saying. "There was a danger he could get injured."