All Time Great Pitching Battle for Baseball Heads LSU Wake Forest

Hi ATS

This is a thread about the most beautiful sport of all time: baseball

What a precise and complex sport lies under a seemingly slow and boring surface. It should be physically impossible to hit a 100 mile per hour fastball, which takes about 400 milliseconds to reach the plate, but it happens regularly.

As a coach, I get to see the way it shapes the young players. The boys learn about discipline, teamwork, and focus all while growing stronger and faster out in the sun and dirt. There are highs and lows, but some of the best lessons come after the lows. There's a lot going on cerebrally in the mind of an advanced player. Plus, it's just fun to play and strategize.

I wanted to post a game from last years college world series which turned out to be one of the greatest pitching battles of all time. Many who follow the sport know the name Paul Skenes, but equally if not more impressive was the performance by Wake Forest's Rhett Lowder.
Skenes throws 120 pitches in this match. No runs given up. His 120th pitch was a 100 mph fastball!
He pitched 8 scoreless innings, 1 walk, 9 strikeouts, 2 hits. When he wasn't striking the batter out, they were popping the ball up for mostly easy outs.
Lowder threw only 88 pitches through 7 complete scoreless innings. He gave up 3 hits, 2 walks, and forced a lot of ground ball outs.
This game is just a masterclass in pitching with two very different styles.

Hope there is at least one baseball head out there who can enjoy this (full game)!

a reply to: zosimov

Baseball has it origins in 16th Century England. Later it changed it's name to " Rounders " which was played by girls.

The 1744 publication " A Little Pretty Pocket Book " for children mentions the game.

This is the first known reference to "base-ball" or "baseball" in print, though it actually meant the game rounders, an ancestor of modern baseball. Of baseball's English origin: "The game of Rounders has been played in England since Tudor Times, with the earliest reference being in 1744 in 'A Little Pretty Pocketbook' where it is called baseball."[4][5] "It is a striking and fielding team game, which involves hitting a small hard leather cased ball with a round wooden or metal bat and then running around 4 bases in order to score.

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Rounders.

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a reply to: alldaylong

I was a girl who played baseball. It's very rare, but it happens.

Great sport. Very cool history, too, though it's come a long way since its rounder days.

a reply to: zosimov

Beautiful the game is! ⚾️