Baseball fans: Have either of these ever happened at the professional, college or high school leve?

SanctionII

Whether they have happened or not, which would you prefer and why.

1. A game where 27 pitches are thrown and each pitch resulted in an out (all 27 at bats of one team results in 27 1 pitch outs); or

2. A game where 81 pitches are thrown, with each pitch being a strike (all 27 at bats of one team result in 27 3 pitch strike outs).

LarkinCollector

Interesting question, and I doubt either have happened at any level, but wouldn't know where to look to begin to confirm.

Estil

I did ask not too long ago if there was a "super perfect game" where the pitcher struck out every batter.

https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/840234/has-any-pitcher-at-any-level-pitched-a-super-perfect-game-struck-out-every-batter

keets

a three pitch or nine pitch inning happen in MLB and are very rare, it seems what you are asking wouldn't even happen in Little League.

Coinstartled

Nope. It would be like shooting 36 on a par 72 course (Eagle each hole).

daltex

I'm sure it has. It is always amazing to me when something really unusual happens, only to find out that it hasn't happened before in many years. Very low probability, but how many millions of games are we spreading it over?

SanctionII

When I was in 8th grade an intramural team of 8th graders played a 7th grade team in basketball and won the game 108 - 0.

Strange but true.

So at some level of baseball over the past 150+ years I expect both a 27 pitch and an 82 pitch game to have taken place.

Estil

@MLBdays said:
My guess would be not a chance....what are the odds of throwing a 6 sided dice and having it land on 6 ~ twelve times in a row?

6^12 (six to the 12th power) or 2,176,782,336 to one.

stevek

@SanctionII said:

Baseball fans: Have either of these ever happened at the professional, college or high school leve?

Whether they have happened or not, which would you prefer and why.

1. A game where 27 pitches are thrown and each pitch resulted in an out (all 27 at bats of one team results in 27 1 pitch outs); or

2. A game where 81 pitches are thrown, with each pitch being a strike (all 27 at bats of one team result in 27 3 pitch strike outs).

If the game was legit, played under normal competitive circumstances, it's not realistically possible.

Coinstartled

Sort of like the monkey at the typewriter randomly typing War and Peace.

stevek

@Coinstartled said:
Sort of like the monkey at the typewriter randomly typing War and Peace.

That's a good analogy. One of those scenarios of in theory being possible, but realistically impossible.

Coinstartled

The second scenario would seemingly be more possible of the two. A Nolan Ryan type hurler singing fastballs past inept batters. Even then, it would take only one taken ball or one lightly contacted foul or bunt to mess things up.

It would have to be a set up.

Brick

If the first two batters in an inning make an out on the first pitch the third batter is not swinging at the first pitch. No way Jose. Unless he wants to go back to the minors.

JRR300

I just saw an article that a woman's college softball team had a pitcher who pitched a super perfect game. So she did strike out every batter but did miss the strike zone occasionally. Probably as close as you'll see.

craig44

Chris Sale pitched an immaculate inning earlier this year.

9 pitches, 3 strikeouts

1951WheatiesPremium

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mlb.com/amp/cut4/high-school-softball-pitcher-throws-perfect-perfect-game.html

21 up, 21 down, 21 via strikeout.

Not exactly what you were looking for but pretty close, right?

She’s a sophomore, too, so it may happen again