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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 ...
A full baseball game is typically scheduled for nine innings, while softball games consist of seven innings, although this may be shortened due to weather, or extended if the score is tied at the end of the scheduled innings. The use of the term inning in baseball and softball contrasts with cricket and rounders, in which the term is innings in ...
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.
At the college/professional level, baseball is played in nine innings where each team gets one turn to bat and tries to score runs while the other pitches and defends in the field. High school baseball plays seven innings and Little League uses six-inning games. An inning is broken up into two halves where the away team bats in the top (first ...
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 7, 1953, Hoeft became the eighth pitcher in major-league history to pitch an immaculate inning, striking out all three batters on nine total pitches in the seventh inning of a game against the Chicago White Sox; it was the first time the feat had been accomplished since 1928. [1]
On April 19, 1964, Bruce struck out all three batters on nine total pitches in the eighth inning of a 6–2 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers, becoming the seventh National League pitcher and the 12th pitcher in major-league history to throw an immaculate inning, one day after Sandy Koufax achieved the same feat. [4]
In the seventh inning of that game, he pitched, as of 2023, the only immaculate inning in World Series play; his victims were Terry Pendleton, Tom Nieto and Brian Harper. Jackson's 1.04 post-season ERA with the Royals is the lowest in team history (min 10 IP). The Royals went on to win the World Series in seven games.