I think it is safe to say that this story chronicles the exploits of not only the worst pitcher of all time, but also the worst coach of all-time. I have three very important questions:
1. Why wasn’t the pitcher taken out of the game after giving up 26 runs in the first inning?
2. Why was a high school pitched allowed to throw 25 pitches?
3. Why doesn’t Japan have a mercy rule?
4. Why hasn’t this coach already been fired?
5. Has a stupider quote ever been uttered?
“At that pace the pitcher would have thrown around 500 pitches in four innings,” Kawamoto’s coach was quoted as saying. “There was a danger he could get injured.”
He could have got injured? Was there any danger of him getting hurt by throwing 250 pitches? I would argue that he was in significant danger just by being the closest one to the plate when a team is in the process of scoring 66 runs in 1 1/3 innings. Apparently this kid was the staff ace, or the only player on the team who had mastered the intricacies of the pitcher position.
Unless every player on the Shunshukan high school roster was Tom Selleck or President Palmer, this should have never happened:
After the first innings, the pitcher’s ERA, assuming all of those runs were earned, which I am sure they weren’t, was 234. When the game was called, the pitcher’s ERA (again assuming the runs were earned) was 445. Of course, that isn’t the highest ERA of all time. According to these guys, 20 pitchers have a career ERA of infinity, but I guarantee those guys weren’t given the opportunity to face upwards of 70 batters before getting the hook.
The Angry T
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