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5 minutes ago, @SkinsGoldPants said:

3 picks, 3 pitchers.  Makes sense. Fedde will be up soonish. You have Crowe there. Romero is a crap shoot. Then the rest of your top prospects aren't pitchers. 

Rizzo seems to prefer taking Ps early in the draft. I think the idea is: you get a bunch of them, and hope 1 or 2 pan out. And pitching prospects always seem to fetch more than hitters.

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9 minutes ago, Forehead said:

Pop quiz...what is less common, a no hitter or an immaculate inning?

 

Also, was reviewing the draft picks....we certainly went pitching heavy, but some intriguing possibilities.

Per Wikipedia, the immaculate inning is more rare...

 

You're welcome.

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25 minutes ago, Forehead said:

Pop quiz...what is less common, a no hitter or an immaculate inning?

 

Also, was reviewing the draft picks....we certainly went pitching heavy, but some intriguing possibilities.

 

Schaller could be a very intriguing pick. It looks like Rizzo said enough with this trading players for bullpen arms ****.

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1 hour ago, CaptainJames2004 said:

Per Wikipedia, the immaculate inning is more rare...

 

You're welcome.

The immaculate inning is more rare, but a no hitter is still harder to accomplish since it requires dominance over nine innings, not one.

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28 minutes ago, PleaseBlitz said:

 

Not sure you can get 9 strikeouts in one (half) inning, Sporting News. 

 

It's possible.  Hugely unlikely, and has never happened in MLB, but theoretically possible, because of the uncaught third strike rule.. Passed ball or wild pitch on strike three six times plus three regular strikeouts.  But the most Ks in the majors in a half inning is 4.

 

And there have been a surprising number of pitchers who have struck out 4 batters in one half inning... it's happened 40 times in the AL and 49 times in the NL.

 

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/feats/feats19.shtml

 

 A bit more rare is pitchers who have struck out 4 consecutive batters in one-half inning:

 

In the American League, the following pitchers struck out all four batters in consecutive order: Scott Baker, A.J. Burnett, Mike Cuellar, Mike Paxton, Bobby Witt, Kevin Appier, Wilson Alvarez, Chuck Finley, Kazuhiro Sasaki, Justin Masterson, Jeremy Hellickson, Ryan Cook, Steve Delabar, Phil Hughes, Alex Cobb, Nathan Karns, and Craig Kimbrel.

 

In the National League, the following pitchers struck out all four batters in consecutive order: Ed Crane, Hooks Wiltse, Jim Davis, Pete Richert, Don Drysdale, Bill Bonham, Kirt Ojala, Steve Kline, Octavio Dotel, Jason Berken, Craig Kimbrel, Zack Greinke, and Kenley Jansen.

 

How about 5 strikeouts in one inning?  It's never happened in MLB, but it has happened in the minors at least a couple of times.  Charleston River Dogs reliever Andrew Schwaab did it in 2016.  He also gave up 4 runs that inning:

 

https://www.mlb.com/cut4/minor-league-team-strikes-out-five-batters-in-one-inning/c-173799136

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Lineup for today's 1:00 game against the Tampa Bay Rays' LHP Jonny Venters, a short reliever who will start the game and pitch only one or two innings. before lefty starter Ryan Yarbrough takes over. Interesting strategy there...

 

NATIONALS
SS Trea Turner
RF Bryce Harper
3B Anthony Rendon
1B Mark Reynolds
LF Juan Soto
CF Michael A. Taylor
2B Wilmer Difo
C Pedro Severino
RHP Tanner Roark

 

 

5 minutes ago, PleaseBlitz said:

Fair enough.  But it did not happen yesterday as The Sporting News' tweet suggests. 

 

Houston Astros knuckleballer Joe Niekro struck out five Minnesota Twins batters in the first inning of an exhibition spring training game, April 7, 1976 at New Orleans. Niekro's catcher, Cliff Johnson, was charged with five passed balls in the inning.

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2 hours ago, Dan T. said:

Lineup for today's 1:00 game against the Tampa Bay Rays' LHP Jonny Venters, a short reliever who will start the game and pitch only one or two innings. before lefty starter Ryan Yarbrough takes over. Interesting strategy there...

 

It's not really working out for them, is it? 

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