The Prep Blog - Japanese pitcher has 250-pitch outing

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Friday, April 18th, 2008

Posted by Doug Pacey @ 05:18:53 pm

A Japanese high school pitcher threw 250 pitches and allowed 66 runs in two innings before the game was called.

No, those figures are not misprints. You can read the story about the Kawamoto Technical High School baseball team here.

The most interesting part of the story is what the unnamed Kawamoto coach said after the game:

"At that pace the pitcher would have thrown around 500 pitches in four innings," he said. "There was a danger he could get injured."

But throwing 250 pitches is OK. Gotcha.

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Doug Pacey joined The News Tribune in 2007 after covering prep sports at The Bellingham Herald for five years. He graduated from Issaquah High School in 1998 and earned a journalism degree from the University of Kansas in 2002. E-mail Doug.

Mindi Rice has worked for The News Tribune since January 2006, covering high school sports and motor sports. A Seattle native, she graduated from Roosevelt High School in 2000 then earned a journalism degree from the University of Oregon in 2004. E-mail Mindi.

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