When calculating a pitchers pitch count...?

Question

Say a pitcher throws 90 pitches and they say "66 of them for strikes"...do hits count as strikes? So a pitcher could have a 40 pitch outing and give up 25 hits and his ball/strike ratio would be good?

Thank you. I figured this was a stupid question...but what is stupid to me is that anybody would care how many pitches of a pitchers count are strikes. This tells you nothing. Kind of like the overrated W/L record of a pitcher...
The best pitcher in the league could have a horrible W/L record.

Answer 1

Yes, hits count as strikes in the box score. The pitch count is all pitches thrown. There are no 'wasted pitches' as a previous answerer said. If a hitter fouls off 5 pitches, then swings at a curveball that hits the ground, that's 6 strikes in the box score.

Same goes for hits. If a batter swings at the pitch, it's a strike. So yes, if your pitcher threw 40 pitches and gave up 25 hits, his ball/strike ratio would be decent. His ERA (earned run average) and WHIP (walks and hits per inning pitched) would be terrible.

Pitch counts are important to determine pitcher fatigue, in the game and throughout the season, so every pitch counts.

Answer 2

When the bat makes contact with the pitched ball, it is always a strike, whether the ball ends up in fair territory or foul. The same is true, or course, of call strikes and swinging strikes.

Pitches thrown for intentional walks, though, are not included in the pitch count.

The thing to remember is that pitch counts, in and of themselves, are meaningless. Under what game conditions was each pitch trown? When in the game was it thrown? Are the pitcher's mechanics still good? These and a lot of other questions are far more important that a simple pitch count.

Answer 3

yes hits count as strikes, as do foul balls count as pitches, so say someone throws 35 pitches and gives up 5 hits, struck out 2, walked 3...so far u've got 11 strikes (5 hits 2 K's) and 12 balls (3 Walks), say there were 2 foul balls, so now u have accounted for 25 pitches, and now if u know how many balls verse strike he had lets say 1:4 so 1 strike ever 5 pitches, making 4 out of 5 pitches balls...hope your still following...so we started with 11 strikes, add 2 more cause of foul balls, and then there were 10 pitches left and for every 5 pitches there was one strike, so 10 divided by 5=2, so add 2 to 13 u got 15 strikes, and to figure out balls u can do it the long way, adding the walks plus the balls ratio, or just take the total number of pitches minus the strikes, and you get 25

Answer 4

A pitch is a pitch. If it's hit (fair or foul), it counts as a strike in the pitch count (since it obviously was swung at and it is NOT a ball).

Of course, in your example, if a pitcher pitched 40 pitches, I don't think anyone would leave him in long enough for him to give up 25 hits.:^)

Answer 5

No question is stupid, but the ball/strike ratio is very important as it is an indicator of how a pitcher's k/bb ratio will be (very important pitching statistic). It also tells you if a pitcher is hitting his spots or is all over the place.

Answer 6

you're taking the form of hits, then upload the form of walks, then divide by way of innings. it rather is greater significant because of the fact a tumbler with a low WHIP, yet a extreme era will commonly be headed for a shrink in era (some circumstances very significant), jointly as a tumbler with a extreme WHIP and a low era is headed for an era strengthen. in case you performed 3 innings, and gave up 5 walks and 3 hits, you may upload the 5 and 3 (8), then divide by way of three, SO it may well be 2.sixty seven (no longer large, purpose for decrease than a million.5)

Answer 7

Anything not called a ball by the umpire is considered a strike. That includes hits, foul balls, swing and miss, check swing that goes to far, swinging and missing at a ball 10 feet too high and even swinging-missing-and getting hit in the junk....seen it happen.

Answer 8

Of course balls that are hit are counted as strikes. They certainly weren't balls.

Answer 9

Yes they do.