Japanese school team hit for 66 runs in two innings

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TOKYO, April 17 (Reuters) - A Japanese high school pleaded for a regional game to be abandoned after surrendering 66 runs in less than two innings, local media reported on Thursday.

 

The coach of Kawamoto technical high school threw in the towel to spare his pitcher’s arm with his team losing 66-0 with just one batter out in the bottom of the second.

 

The hapless hurler had already sent down over 250 pitches, allowing 26 runs in the first inning and 40 in the second before Kawamoto asked for mercy.

 

“At that pace the pitcher would have thrown around 500 pitches in four innings,” Kawamoto’s coach was quoted as saying. “There was a danger he could get injured.”

 

Opponents Shunshukan were officially credited with a 9-0 victory, giving the scoreline a tinge of respectability for the luckless Kawamoto school. (Writing by Alastair Himmer; Editing by Justin Palmer)

 

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=reu-japanscore&prov=reuters&type=lgns

 

What I'd like to know is why the f*** would you leave a highschool pitcher in after the first few hits... yet alone 66 on 250 pitches...

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It's different over there. They have no mercy for a pitcher's arm. I don't remember the exact numbers off the top of my head, but Matsuzaka threw over 200 in one start (complete game) at Koshien, threw a complete game the next day, and pitched in relief the following day. They think it's good for a pitcher's arm to get used to being worked like that. Very unconventional.

[26 to 6]

But 66 runs in an inning and a third!? WOW!!

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You know I'm fine with starters completing games, I love that. But this isn't how it should be. They really should have put someone in as relief to save the game, not let this kid go one like that, they're f***ed up for making them do that stuff.

[Optimist]

That's only a 456. 92 ERA...

 

 

Someone let Carl Pavano know he has some stiff competition for Worst Pitcher Ever...oh well, at least he still holds the other WPE (Worst Person Ever.)

[26 to 6]

I hope he comes back in September, throws a few good innings, and nets himself a guaranteed contract somewhere for a few million. That would be nice for him

[rician blast]

Any disparity that great can NOT have come as a surprise. Teams that far apart in terms of ability should not be playing each other. Whoever scheduled that game deserves to be punched in the fkn face for humiliating a group of KIDS like that.

[Youk Of The Nation]

I thought Kei Igawa pitched in the US now?

[schillingouttheks]

Sir, I don't mean to bother

But that night you told another

'Til Ortiz got his hits

You would write limericks

As if you were matched by no other