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March 21, 2008

Patterson's Perfect?

Is this true?

I was just looking at Scott Patterson's spring training game log, to date, this season.

It says he's pitched in 6 games, thrown 6 innings, and, get this, in those 6 innings he's thrown 28 pitches - all for strikes.

That can't be right, can it? He hasn't thrown a "ball" yet this spring? Really? Even some of those pitch counts look funky. Five out on six pitches, all strikes, during his last outing? Actually, in total, it seems too far out - 18 outs on 28 pitches, all strikes? Com'on, not even Sidd Finch was that good.

Update 3/21, 11:14 pm ET: It's comfirmed. This is just a mlb.com reporting error. Too bad. It made for a great story. File this one under: It's not true, but, it's accurate.

Posted by Steve Lombardi at March 21, 2008 10:37 PM

Comments

No, their pitch-by-pitch stat keeping only keeps the strikes, unless you walk someone, I think. He's definitely thrown some balls.

But he has been excellent. I would imagine he'd be on the short list for relief callup this season.

Posted by: Andrew [TypeKey Profile Page] at March 21, 2008 10:56 PM

Good catch on the no walk = no balls thing.

I just checked Mark Melancon and Scott Strickland - and their game logs - and it's the same thing. No BB allowed and all, or only, strikes listed as pitches thrown.

Posted by: Steve Lombardi [TypeKey Profile Page] at March 21, 2008 11:14 PM