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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).
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 ...
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.
Roy Halladay is the only player to have thrown an extra-inning Maddux, throwing 99 pitches in 10 innings on September 6, 2003. [ 1 ] Since Lukehart coined the term in 2012, Henderson Álvarez (left) and Max Fried (right) are tied with the most Madduxes with four apiece as of May 2024 [update] .
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.
Pitching efficiency is typically measured by pitches per inning or pitches per plate appearance. Opposing teams also pay attention to pitch counts, and may try to foul off as many pitches as possible (or at least any difficult-to-hit pitches) either to tire the pitcher out, or to inflate the pitch count and drive a pitcher from the game early ...
The immaculate inning was the 116th in MLB history, making the feat more rare than a no-hitter or a cycle, and the second in White Sox history.The only other Chicago pitcher to throw an immaculate ...