Baseball Team Gets 66 Runs in Two Innings
Here’s an interesting sporting tidbit from Reuters News Service. Thursday they reported a Japanese high school baseball team forfeited a game after giving up 66 runs in 1 1/3 innings of play.
The poor kid on the mound had thrown 250 pitches, giving up 22 runs in the first inning and having allowed 40 more with only a single out in the second. Kawamoto Technical School’s coach asked for the bloodletting to be stopped at that point for fear the pitcher would get injured.
At the rate baseballs were flying back at that pitcher, that injury was as likely to …read more
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