Question for the board

[Blackman]

I came across this tidbit tonight but don't see how it is possible:


On September 12, 1964, the Baltimore Orioles set a Major League record for fewest at-bats during a 9 inning game with 19 versus the Kansas City Royals!


How can a team go through a 9 inning game, and only send 19 batters to the plate? The Royals had to record 27 outs somehow.

I'm stumped.

 

[sharky17]

Hey Buddy.......I'm stumped myself, but what would happen if they had a guy caught stealing with one out or less pretty much EVERY inning? That might do it? :shrug:

 

[mjalam]

walks aren't at bats, etc

 

[Blackman]

MJ --- I guess that's the answer --- it did say At-bats not batters faced. I guess that is the key.


Sharky you are onto the answer as long as those baserunners were walked I guess. Walk a guy, get the next guy to either ground into a double play or get the runner by stealing or picking him off. Those outs are recorded without recording an official at bat.


Thanks guys that was bothering me.

 

[AR182]

walks must be the answer. then there were double plays to cover the outs.

 

[bjfinste]

I'd like to see the boxscore from that. It just seems really unlikely. Even with walks and assuming they were no-hit (even reaching on an error counts as an at-bat), that's still a hell of a lot of double plays.

 

[neverteaseit]

bjfinste it did happen

Baltimore won the game 1-0
Baltimore was at home thus only 25 batters minimum could be faced with the 1 run scored and with no walks
Cannot find boxscore but walks and double plays or even a triple play would be the reason since walks do not count as an at bat.

 

[bjfinste]

The home-team factor never even occured to me. That makes it a little more plausible. Man, that had to be one of the quickest games ever!

 

[escarzamd]

Sac fly in there???

 

[Tank22]

Is there a website that would have old box scores, or even minor league box scores? One of my dad's best friends was a career minor leaguer and I wanted to see where/when he played. I also have a former co-worker that palyed briefly in the early 80's.

 

[Goose]

Still trying to find the boxscore, as I am curious myself...

Here's all I could find so far from a baseball web site (not sure if I can post the addy...)



IN THE NEWS: The Orioles' Frank Bertaina and the A's Bob Meyer duel in the ML's 5th double one-hitter. Bertaina prevails 1?0, his 1st ML win and only decision of the year. Johnny Orsino's 8th inning double and Doc Edwards 5th inning two-bagger account for the hits. Baltimore sets a major-league record for fewest at-bats in a nine inning game (8 times at bat) with 19, and both clubs go to the plate just 46 times. The last battle of matching one-hitters was June 21, 1956.