Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site petfe.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!petsd!petfe!evan
From: evan@petfe.UUCP (Evan Marcus)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Six hit scoreless inning? (answer and 2 more questions)
Message-ID: <293@petfe.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 21-May-85 22:12:33 EDT
Article-I.D.: petfe.293
Posted: Tue May 21 22:12:33 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 23-May-85 02:45:52 EDT
References: <199@azure.UUCP>
Organization: Perkin-Elmer DSG, Tinton Falls, N.J.
Lines: 30


In <199@azure.UUCP> Mary Karlins writes:

> Some time ago I read an article about "The Sporting News" that said that
> it was written for the type of baseball fan that "knows how a pitcher
> can get four strikeouts in an inning and how a team can get six hits
> in an inning but not score any runs."  I know how a pitcher can get
> four strikeouts, but I can't figure out how a team can have a six
> hit scoreless inning.  Can anyone explain this to me?

How about these other baseball puzzles?  How can a pitcher pitch a complete
9 inning game, and throw just 9 legal pitches?  Or how many ways can a 
player reach first base?  I know of 7, but I believe there are more than I can
think of.

As for a 6 hit scoreless inning, I can only think of one way (with several
variations):  single, single (1st and 2nd), single--runner thrown out at 
plate (1st and 2nd, 3 hits), again (1st and 2nd, 4 hits), single (5th hit,
loads bases), and finally, oh, a home run, but the runner from second passes
the runner from 3rd before either can score.  no runs, 6 hits, no errors, 
and 2 left.

--Evan Marcus
-- 

{ucbvax|decvax}!vax135!petsd!pedsgd!pedsga!evan
                         ...!petfe!evan

"We're all different."
"I'm not."