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An immaculate inning occurs in baseball when a pitcher strikes out all three batters he faces in one inning using the minimum possible number of pitches: nine. [1] This has happened 115 times in Major League history and has been accomplished by 105 pitchers (80 right-handed and 25 left-handed).
Game length in Major League Baseball (MLB) has increased over time, with the 1988 New York Yankees being the first team to average over three hours per game. [2] From 2004 through 2014, MLB games increased from an average of 2.85 hours to 3.13 hours. [3]
As of 2024, the Major League Baseball definition of a perfect game is largely a side effect of the decision made by the major leagues' Committee for Statistical Accuracy on September 4, 1991, to redefine a no-hitter as a game in which the pitcher or pitchers on one team throw a complete game of nine innings or more without surrendering a hit. [15]
In baseball, the statistic innings pitched (IP) is the number of innings a pitcher has completed, measured by the number of batters and baserunners that have been put out while the pitcher is on the pitching mound in a game. Three outs made is equal to one inning pitched. One out counts as one-third of an inning, and two outs as two-thirds of ...
MLB has had multiple immaculate innings in every full season since 2016. The last season without one was 2005, a sign of the growing emphasis on strikeouts in today's game.
But I'm assuming it's because the everyday reader (non-baseball fans unlike you and I) would not know what an immaculate inning was. — Bloom6132 ( talk ) 15:21, 25 July 2014 (UTC) [ reply ] The definition "three batters on nine consecutive pitches in a half-inning" doesn't preclude something else happening in the same half-inning.
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The idea is simple. Once a game, a manager gets to put his best batter at the plate regardless of where the batting order stands. So imagine, as a pitcher facing the Dodgers, you get Shohei Ohtani ...