Imagine a baseball player who strikes out every hitter and hits home runs at every at bat, maybe it was me or maybe I missed something but all I saw was strike after strike , home run after home run. Unless this character end's up getting caught into the fame and starts slacking on his skills. He would be the God of Baseball.
" Say Anything "
Yes totally unrealistic movie, but entertaining none the less.
shareWho needs a movie to work in real life - it would then be called Real LIfe and not A Movie, wouldn't it?? I thought Brendan Fraser was wonderful, but then I always do.
sharehe wouldnt be able to bat since he plays for the yankees and that is an american league team and they play with a DH.
shareDH is an option... if a team wanted a pitcher to bat, they would be able to, but pitcher are typically horrendous batters.
shareImagine if, later on in his career, he starts to get wild, there will be plenty of people with broken arms and cracked ribs
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anyone else realize that this is a copy of the natural? I mean the Natural certainly wasnt a comedy, but a troubled god like baseball player who came out of nowhere? The Natural did it first,and did it better
shareI'm not sure why I'm bothering with facts in a movie like this, but Nebraska was probably on the roster by Sep. 1st. The Scout repeatedly told Dr. Aaron that he needed her to write the letter just to get Nebraska on the roster. That was mid-season, when the Yankees were pretenders. Nebraska was just supposed to sit unused through the rest of the season.
shareWhen he was at the doctors office Al tells her he needs the letter to get on the roster even though he wouldn't play unless they made the playoffs. So he got the letter which got him on the roster.
shareHe is on the roster, that's why Al had to get the letter (he explains to Steve that he doesn't have to play until the World Series, but the hasty sign is just to get him on the roster) Just because you're on the 25 roster doesn't necessarily mean you have to be active....especially in the case of a pitcher.
shareThis is totally realistic!! Oh come on!!
shareYou missed the point. It's irrelevant whether or not someone can throw a 81 pitch, 27 K perfect game... It's just a metaphor. The movie is about the struggle for perfection on all fronts, not just one - and how people can achieve in one respect while failing miserably in another.
shareThat's deep.
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I mean, could they have chosen a more anti-climatic hitter to step up for the final batter? The guy has like 20 career homers and he's supposed to be a power threat?
shareIt had to be the ninth batter in the lineup to be the last batter in a perfect game. 40 home run hitters don't usually hit ninth.
shareNeither did Ozzie Smith. Even in a game when the Cardinals would have been using a DH Smith would not have hit 9th.
shareGood point. I wondered about that too, although I don't remember him for his hitting prowess. I guess they figured at the end of an 81 pitch, 81 strike, 27 strikeout perfect game - realism had long since waved bye bye.
shareSmith hit 9th in every game in an AL park in the 1982 World Series.
Smith hit 8th in 462 of his starts as a National Leaguer. Had the DH been used in those games he would have hit 9th.
Haha yeah like when I was a kid and I'd imagine myself doing stupid outlandish sh*t like bunting a homerun.
shareOr for a 9 pitch game every batter must swing at the first pitch..hit it and get a pop fly or thrown out at first base...
shareOr for a 9 pitch game every batter must swing at the first pitch..hit it and get a pop fly or thrown out at first base...
You wanna know something else that's impossible in real life but can win you free drinks forever?
What's the fewest number of pitches possible in a 9-inning complete game?
ANS: 9
It's theoretically possible but so highly improbable that it makes the 27K/81P perfect game seem like a regular occurence.
In order to throw a 9-pitch 9 inning complete game the first batter of each inning must lead off with a first-pitch triple. On the next throw to the plate he must attempt to steal home. This throw is not considered a pitch according to the rules. The batter must interfere with the throw and be called out for interference, and this must occur for each of the next two batters on the next two throws to the plate. For 9 innings straight. Only one pitch in every inning -- the lead-off triple -- and three consecutive pickoff throws home on which batter's interference is called.
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That doesn't work, and here is why.
Pitch 1: First batter, hits a triple. Then, as you say, he tries stealing home and is thrown out, as is the batter for interference (which i don't think is actually true)
Pitch 2: THIRD BATTER!! Bases are empty, and the pitcher is pitching the second pitch of the game.
The third batter can't be called out for interference, because, by your example, there is nobody on base. You can say that its maybe, 18 pitches, but I don't think you are right about the interference rule, so the least amount of pitches is 27.
Unless you can show me in the rule book how this works, I don't believe you are right
You look a little pale...
Blood makes me nauseous...
How would a suicide squeeze be possible if the batter could be called for interference on a pick-off throw to home?
shareI agree with your logic to the poster above you about not being able to have 9 pitches but, your answer is also wrong.
rwilymz » Wed Feb 28 2007 posted
What's the fewest number of pitches possible in a 9-inning complete game?
you know, i actually think the lowest amount of pitches you could throw in a 9 inning game, or a longer one for that matter, is 0......because there are different ways on the mound to have the umpire call an automatic ball, stalling, doctoring the ball or your hand, etc. and i dont know exactly what the balking rule is with nobody on, it may be a ball as well. so by getting 4 automatic balls called the the pitcher picks off the runner, 3 times an inning, he got out of the inning without throwning a pitch, and just do that all game...i guess it would take a very patient umpire though
shareI don't think that is true as 4 straight balls would still count as 4 pitches, but a walk does not count as a hit
There are 7, yes I said SEVENways to get on first without getting a hit
1. Walk
2. Error
3. Third strike
4. Interference
5. Fielders choice
6. Getting hit
7. Pinch runner
I have twin boys, Pete and Repete
Technically, I think the answer is zero.
According to rule 8.02(a)(1, a)n umpire can call an automatic ball if a pitcher brings his mouth to his lips while in a certain area near the rubber. If a pitcher did this four times, it would be a walk. A pitcher could then balk three times, scoring the runner. Every other batter could theoretically reach base this same way and then be picked off by the pitcher.
thanks moron
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it's a movie.
would batman or spiderman work in real life???