Here it is - the 9 ways a batter can reach first base

[KitchenWitch]

1. Hit
2. Base on Balls
3. Hit by Pitch
4. Fielder's Choice
5. Dropped Third Strike
6. Error
7. Catcher's Interference
8. Umpire's Interference
9. Double Play (I am presuming a 6-5-4 type DP here)












And here is a photo of the dinner plate in my china set!

[Omphaloskepsis]

1. Compliment her teeth and genitals?

[KitchenWitch]

9. ...

:spank:

[Oeditpus Rex]

23. Dude

EVerybody knows you compliment those before that. :eyes:

[Oeditpus Rex]

2. Mmmm...

Wouldn't a double play in that sense qualify as a fielder's choice? :shrug:

I totally didn't think of umpire's interference, though. :blush:

[KitchenWitch]

3. I think the same of the DP - it IS a fielder's choice.

But that is what was listed on the site I googled.

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. Whew!

It's been a few years since I scored a game, so I thought I was slippin'.

But, yeah — I went back over it in my head, and I know when the batter was safe, it was a 6-4 (or 4-6 or 5-4) FO at second and a 4-3 (or 6-3) FC at first.

Okay, here's a nightmare: Runner goes on a dropped third strike, slips, hauls it back to first. Catcher throws down to first. First baseman tags the runner, then the hitter. How do you score it?

:evilgrin:

[KitchenWitch]

17. Oh fuckshit!

2-3-3?

[Oeditpus Rex]

21. LOL!

Hell, I dunno. I just made it up. :P



Okay — 2-3 for the tag, then 3 UA for the putout on the runner? Can one player have two assists on the same play? :shrug:



Now my head hurts.

Shitfuck. x(

[KitchenWitch]

5. Fielder interference!

[Oeditpus Rex]

12. Yeah, that's gotta be it

i.e. the reverse of A-Clod.

[KitchenWitch]

13. *snerk*

You mean Pay-Fraud?

[Oeditpus Rex]

16. Either way

I prefer my own nicks, TYVM. :P

[KitchenWitch]

25. Well LA de DAH!

:rofl:

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

4. Ohhh...you ment THAT first base

:spank:

[KitchenWitch]

6. OOOOHH talk dirty to me baybeeee!

:evilgrin:

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

7. you can hit a line drive down my baseline anyday

:evilgrin:

[KitchenWitch]

8. SLIIIIIIIIIDE!

:evilgrin:

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

10. SAFE!

heh

[KitchenWitch]

11. Chicks dig the long...

ball!

:evilgrin:

[SeattleGirl]

15. Thank you!!!!

Well, I had about half of 'em right!

[Oeditpus Rex]

18. Okay — now

What's the least number of pitches a pitcher can throw in a nine-inning game?

:evilgrin:

[KitchenWitch]

20. 72

[Oeditpus Rex]

22. Nope

[KitchenWitch]

24. Wait. 24

:dunce:

[Oeditpus Rex]

26. Nope

[KitchenWitch]

28. Help a sistah out here...

:blush:

[Oeditpus Rex]

33. Eight

[KitchenWitch]

36. Eight?

:wtf:

[Oeditpus Rex]

37. Yup

First batter in the first inning gets on on the first pitch — doesn't matter how. Without throwing another pitch, the pitcher picks him off first — but there's catcher's interference on the play, so the batter gets first base. Then he gets picked off without a pitch, but again there's catcher's interference. Et cetera.

Repeat for eight innings, assuming the home club's ahead.

:evilgrin:

[KitchenWitch]

38. Jaysus!

:yoiks:

[Oeditpus Rex]

39. I know

Read it in Baseball Digest about 800 years ago.

[KitchenWitch]

30. Got it - 25

[SeattleGirl]

27. 27

[Oeditpus Rex]

29. Nope

[SeattleGirl]

31. What??????

Okay, 9.

[KitchenWitch]

32. 25

The minimum number of pitches thrown by a pitcher would be 25. (Through 8 innings a visiting pitcher could throw a minumum of 24 pitches 8 innings x 3 outs. In the top of the ninth he could serve up a home run and the game would end 1-0 and 25 pitches.

[Oeditpus Rex]

35. That's good thinkin'

Though you meant the bottom of the ninth.

But it's still not the correct answer. :P

[Oeditpus Rex]

34. Close

Eight.

Assuming the home club wins.

[SeattleGirl]

40. Oh, right.

Not that I've ever seen such a game, but yeah. 1 pitch per batter, outs by pop-up, fly-out, or line-drive out.

[KitchenWitch]

19. Yeah, I was going crazy - just replace the DP one with Fielder Interference

and we are cooking with gas!

and number 10? wait for it...
















































Pinch Runner.