Women's softball pitching feat in defeat

[exskibum]

Perfect game, 23 strikeouts in 8 innings (1 extra inning) -- you know she was having some kinda INSANE day on the mound.

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2444918-hs-softball-pitcher-strikes-out-23-over-course-of-perfect-game-still-loses?utm_source=cnn.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=cnn-sports-bin

But she doesn't get the win?!? Her team didn't need their gloves, but they forgot the bats? And WTF with that crazy rule? How does the scorer score a ghost runner? And if there is no runner, then a wild pitch is nothing more than a ball, and the catcher chucking it into left field can't be charged with an error just throwing it around the horn. Right?

 

[MCRIDER007]

May 26, 1959............Harvey Haddix pitched 12 perfect innings for the Pirates before losing in the 13th. The game was on the radio and I got to listen to the last 5 innings. Perfect games were almost unheard of that time, I think there had only been 5 or 6 in baseball history so that game was pretty exciting for a baseball fan. The opposing pitcher, Lew Burdette, wasn't perfect but he did not allow a run in 13 innings....think that will ever happen again?

Too bad about the gal loosing her perfect game but anytime tie breakers are involved you are going to get some strange endings.

 

[dcarver]

at that point in time, it's time for a beer

 

[exskibum]

Steve - when I opened the link, I was expecting something like a perfect game through regulation and a late error or being taken out and not getting the win. I think you posted the only MLB perfect game that went that way. Seems to me there are a couple or three MLB no hitters that had such a result. BTW, I didn't realize you were enough older than me to have been following MLB in the 50s.

Don, I agree, except she is in high school. Thinking she'll have scholarship offers at the next level.

What REALLY impressed me was 23 Ks out of 24 batters! Even in high school, that is just nuts. Listen to her clip and she says she had a drop, a rise and a curve working. Command of a rise ball AND a drop together will sprain batters wrists; add location and it's almost unfair from that distance. Never mind that she also had a curve for a change of pace. About 35 years ago, we had a game against a 6'5" fire baller who was in the zone like that. Nothing all game that was not at the knees, armpits or either rising or dropping out of the strike zone. We got 2 weak assed hits. The first was a slow infield roller. A couple innings later, the only time I touched the ball, I hit the lamest blooped flare barely over the first baseman, off my index finger on something he jammed me with. Hurt like hell and pure luck that it found a landing spot. That big red haired dude owned us and we drank a number of beers afterwards trying to recall whether any of us had seen a really hittable pitch.

Still -- it wasn't 23 strikeouts in 24 batters. Dayum! Talk about feeling helpless at the plate! (And that team won.)

 

[HotRodZilla]

Softball rules are made by drunken idiots. Like an infield fly with 2 outs is an automatic out. If a girl with 2 strikes bunts, it's an automatic out. Stupid.

Some idiot probably came up with that runner on 2nd base rule because his daughters team sucked and never got any runs, so they came up with that BS to help him out.

Oh well, I'd rather watch girls softball at any level than baseball. The softball games are way more competitive and the girls are fierce competitors. Any girl that can throw a perfect game has college paid for, so good for her!

 

[Old Michael]

Softball rules are made by drunken idiots. Like an infield fly with 2 outs is an automatic out. If a girl with 2 strikes bunts, it's an automatic out. Stupid.
Some idiot probably came up with that runner on 2nd base rule because his daughters team sucked and never got any runs, so they came up with that BS to help him out.

Geez, HRZ, aren't you being a little hard-on softball?