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Brandon McCarthy threw the seventh and final immaculate inning of 2014. The frequency of immaculate innings has varied widely throughout baseball history. There were only 30 immaculate innings in the 114 Major League seasons from 1876 to 1988, but the next 30 occurred in the 21 seasons from 1989 to 2009. The pace has since picked up even more ...
Immaculate Grid is a browser game in which players get nine guesses to fill a 3x3 grid with professional athletes. Originally developed for baseball , it has since been expanded to each of the other major American professional sports , as well as soccer .
The sound of the bat hitting the ball. The term is used in baseball to mean "immediately, without hesitation". For example, a baserunner may start running "on the crack of the bat", as opposed to waiting to see where the ball goes. Outfielders often use the sound of bat-meeting-ball as a clue to how far a ball has been hit.
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 ...
The visiting team bats in the first half-inning, the top of the inning, derived from the position of the visiting team at the top line of a baseball line score. The home team's half of an inning is the bottom of the inning, and the break between halves of an inning is the middle of the inning. If the home team is leading after the top half of ...
These days the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning is grab my phone, open up my new favorite game and plunge myself into the deepest recesses of my memory bank, straining like hell to ...
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.
On September 8, 1977, Sutter struck out all three batters on nine total pitches in the ninth inning of a 10-inning 3–2 win over the Montreal Expos, becoming the 12th NL pitcher and the 19th pitcher in major-league history to achieve an immaculate inning. Sutter had also struck out the side (although not on nine pitches) upon entering the game ...