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Baseball

kairos12

(13,243 posts) Sun Oct 4, 2015, 12:03 AM Oct 2015

JIm Palmer pitched 3948 innings in MLB and never allowed a grand slam.

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JIm Palmer pitched 3948 innings in MLB and never allowed a grand slam. (Original Post) kairos12 Oct 2015 OP

Yep, his philosophy was that it was better to walk a guy with the bases loaded... malthaussen Oct 2015 #1

It is a great way to Dyedinthewoolliberal Oct 2015 #2

malthaussen

(17,664 posts)

1. Yep, his philosophy was that it was better to walk a guy with the bases loaded...

Reply to kairos12 (Original post)

Sun Oct 4, 2015, 07:24 AM

Oct 2015

... then give him something good to swing at and score four runs. It's pretty amazing, though, that he never let one get away and let somebody like Bucky Dent hit it into the stands.

-- Mal

Dyedinthewoolliberal

(15,902 posts)

2. It is a great way to

Reply to kairos12 (Original post)

Sun Oct 11, 2015, 11:09 AM

Oct 2015

Talk about pitchers. That is a great stat!

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