How many TOTAL possible pitches can you see, without swinging the bat, before you are walked to first base? Guesses aren't acceptable... You have to supply the logic as well.
2007-04-03 10:11:21 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Baseball
11 - you work it to a full count (5 pitches) and then a runner gets thrown out on the bases. You come up again in the next inning and again work a full count before you get that 4th ball.
2007-04-03 11:18:56 · answer #1 · answered by JerH1 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
5
2007-04-07 11:10:25 · answer #2 · answered by Mike W 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I assume that you are not counting pick-off attempts as pitches, because if the pitcher was being ridiculous with those I could stand at the plate until doomsday (theoretically).
So I'm standing at the plate, and like Pedro Martinez or many other NL pitchers, am determined not to take that bat off my shoulder. Pitcher winds up, throws a ball. One. Pitcher winds up, throws a ball in the dirt, it skids off to the backstop and the man on first takes off for second. Safe. Two. Pitcher winds up, paints the inside corner; I think it's a ball, but the pitcher calls strike. I think about jawing him, but I'm just a rookie pitcher and am concerned about my own strike zone. Three. Pitcher winds up, throws a beauty of a curve ball that goes by right in the heart of the strike zone. Strike. Four. Pitcher winds up, throws a ball that nearly hits me for some reason, and I'm almost too concerned about my skinned elbow, getting up from the dirt, to notice that the umpire called it a ball. Five. Full count. The bat is still on my shoulder, though it's beginning to be a bit heavy (I'm rather the opposite of Bobby Jenks). Pitcher winds up, after checking the dude on second (he got there from the passed ball, remember, though I thought it was more like a wild pitch). He throws - it's just a bit low - I'm almost ready to go back to the dugout, but the ump calls it a ball! How nice of him. I throw the bat down and do my best imitation of a saunter off to first. It's taken six pitches to get my non-swinging self to the first-base bag.
... Six.
2007-04-03 17:24:07 · answer #3 · answered by sunshinelady2007 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Without swinging, you can see as many as 6 pitches. You can see 2 strikes and the 4 balls necessary to walk.
2007-04-03 17:18:08 · answer #4 · answered by Bigfoot 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
9. Two strikes, 4 balls and 3 balks.
However, technically, you could see an infinite number of pitches if the pitcher kept throwing the ball over your head, hitting your bat and going foul. You wouldn't be swinging, right?
2007-04-03 17:19:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The highest number of pitches you would see is 6. You would have 2 strikes, and your 4 balls.
Hope that helped with whatever you needed to know
2007-04-03 17:19:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you really think about a million becasue the pitcher can keep throwing it off of your bat with out u swinging
2007-04-03 17:17:41 · answer #7 · answered by 69 on a tuesday 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
the pitcher would probably throw a high fastball or something like that so i would be swinging away as hard as i could
2007-04-03 17:17:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋