Intentional hitting of pitches against certain batters

Coral Gables, Florida (VIP-WIRE).- “Shocked…: A very important part of a person’s body when they swim sitting down”… La Pimpi.-

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Question of the Week: The rookie Maracaibo native Jackson Chourio has hit 21 home runs with the triumphant Brewers. Who holds the record for most home runs by a rookie in the Major Leagues?

The Answer: Aaron Judge, of the Yankeeswho scored 52 in 2017.

They have gradually revived in recent years. releases to the body of the battersespecially against those in power and against the clowns who make little perreo figures after each hit.

So much so that, as my friends at Larry Brown Sports inform me, Major League Baseball is investigating whether it is true that Red Sox manager Alex Cora said that it is “implicit” that his pitchers have hit Yankees outfielder and slugger Aaron Judge.

Until about 30 years ago, many pitchers were known to throw a fastball at the head of every batter who came next after someone hit a home run.

With the arrival of Marvin Miller to the Major League Baseball Players Association, that custom, which was almost law, disappeared.

Now, they no longer punish an innocent person, but they do wait for the home run hitter or the one who is playing the role of a bullfighter to come back to bat, if he wants to avoid the pain of being hit by a pitch.

By the way, in 2018 Judge was hit by a pitch so hard that he ended up on the injured list.

As you might expect, it is forbidden to try to hit the batters. The penalties can include expulsion from the game, fines and suspensions.

But there are two prohibited things that pitchers continue to do: bringing fastballs close to batters and throwing balls with saliva or other substances on them.

Even though umpires now constantly examine pitchers and their gloves, who knows how they do it!, they continue to smear the balls.

But the batter who was hit by pitches the most times by pitchers was not a home run hitter, nor a fan of the game; he played before the era of power and the game, until 1918. He was infielder Hughie Jennings, a .312 hitter, 18 home runs, 840 RBIs and 356 steals. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1945. He was hit by pitches 287 times.

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“If these timid hitters keep showing up, pretending to fight you after every close pitch, they’d be better off changing the Rules and hitting with a batting tee (i.e., hose)”… Don Drysdale, former pitcher and Hall of Famer.

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Venezuelan by birth, naturalized American. Born on January 10, 1929. He began working as a reporter in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1947, and later graduated in 1953 as a journalist from the Márquez Sterling School in Havana, Cuba. He graduated as a historian in 1963 from Saint Francis College in Andale, Minnesota. He has covered all types of sources in journalism, and has directed newspapers and magazines in Venezuela and the United States. Since October 1960, he has devoted himself exclusively to Major League Baseball. He was a radio and television commentator for Major League Baseball games for 22 years for Latin America, including Mexico. He has produced and broadcast numerous television programs on baseball. His daily column,

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