Little Leaguer strikes out 18

[yankeessuck013]

Pimentel strikes out 18 to lead California to win

 

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. -- Kalen is most definitely spelled with a "K."

 

Kalen Pimentel tied a Little League World Series record for a regulation, six-inning game with 18 strikeouts to lead Rancho Bueno Vista of Vista, Calif., to a 7-2 victory over Owensboro (Ky.) Southern in the Little League World Series on Saturday.

 

"It took me a couple of innings to get adjusted and I started to get in a groove about the fourth inning," Pimentel said. "My fastball and curve were really working well."

 

The feat was last accomplished in 1979 by Chao-An Chen of the Pu-Tzu Town team from Taiwan.

 

Pimentel's pitching highlighted the busiest day Saturday of the 10-day tournament -- six games in two stadiums all scheduled to start within a nine-hour span.

 

danny almonte 2?

[YankeeDoodle]

Nah, I think that LL would be more careful second time around.

 

Pretty impressive that this kid (well, I guess they're all supposed to be kids) tied the LL WS record.

[YanksHater213]

Yeah, me and stocker watched this kid pitch yesterday while the Sox were playing like s***. Pimentel was spectacular. He was gunning them in routinely in the mid-70s. Pretty amazing.

[Sizzlin22]

I wached him it was disgusting the catcher put up his glove and the ball went right to it, catcher never had to move it.

[yankeessuck013]

he pitches 82 mph which is over 100 as a major league equivelent according to sunday night baseball, because they pitch from a shorter distance. He struck out every out that he recorded. Very very impressive.

 

he does look kind of old though

[YanksHater213]

82? He never even touched 80, and I watched basically the whole game. He maxed out around 75-76.

[bobby jr]

They need to move the mound back or something if a pitcher can strike out every hitter.

 

I can't help but wonder how old he is too, there have been scandals before about overage pitchers in the little league.

[yankeessuck013]

thats what joe morgan said.

[stocker323]

Kid just hit a friggin grand slam, so he can pitch and hit. Announcers said he once hit one 350.

[Sizzlin22]

Somethings wrong with that kid, he has as much facial hair as I do, and I'm a hairy person.

[Ray10]

I saw the kid pitch he has some nasty stuff. He's doing this when he's 12 imagine how good he's going to be when he's like 18 or 19.

[Soxfan1]

New englands rep got eliminated yesterday. Damn kids.

[RedSoxRooter]

The kid's probably on steroids.

[yankeessuck013]

lol...I was thinking that too

[redsoxrules]

The kid's probably on steroids.

probly got it from giambi.lol

[yankeessuck013]

did anyone hear about that team that hit 6 homeruns in 1 game! Move that fence back!!!!!!

[yankeessuck013]

The kid's probably on steroids.

 

haha, on cold pizza, skip bayless just said that they should have drug testing for performance enhancing drugs.

[redsoxrules]

did anyone hear about that team that hit 6 homeruns in 1 game! Move that fence back!!!!!!

 

either that or get better pitching

[yankeessuck013]

he hit another grand slam today

[Sizzlin22]

I actually feel bad for the kid. I mean he probably is 12 years old, there's always that on kid in the class who matures at liek age 10, and he's probabaly really self conscious about the whole thing. I'm sure he's self conscious about his chin beard thing at school, let alone them showing it on Sports Center and PTI for the whole world to know. I dunno I jsut kinda feel for the kid, he's jsut there to play baseball.