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21K's. Sweet Mother. It's the first perfect game in North Texas history.

I thought the 21 strikeouts was incredible until I read she has accomplished this before at NT.

According to ESPN, this is the first 21k Perfect Game in NCAA D1 history. Hope is ridiculous.

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/stor...rfect-game

There have been 2 other games in NCAA softball history where a pitcher threw 21 K's in a 7-inning game. One (Michelle Granger from Cal-Berkeley) was a no-hitter, but not a perfect game.

It's too bad the game wasn't a regularly scheduled 9 inning game. The NCAA record for most K's in a 9-inning game is just 23.

(04-11-2021 11:26 PM)Magic95Fan Wrote:  According to ESPN, this is the first 21k Perfect Game in NCAA D1 history. Hope is ridiculous.

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/stor...rfect-game

To my mind, a truly perfect game would be 21 outs in 21 batters on 63 pitches, all swinging strikes.

(04-12-2021 12:19 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  There have been 2 other games in NCAA softball history where a pitcher threw 21 K's in a 7-inning game. One (Michelle Granger from Cal-Berkeley) was a no-hitter, but not a perfect game.

It's too bad the game wasn't a regularly scheduled 9 inning game. The NCAA record for most K's in a 9-inning game is just 23.

I don't think softball plays 9 inning games any more.....to my knowledge every game USM softball has played the since coming back in 1999 have all been 7 inning games unless the run rule or extra innings were in effect.

In 2000 which was USM's second season of restarting the program our pitchers (mainly Courtney Blades) combined to throw 41 shutouts in the 63 wins and at one point combined on 12 consecutive shutouts

So did she accomplish it? Oh wait, her first name is Hope. Got it.

Seriously though, that’s ******* insane!!!

This story was on the front of Yahoo. What an accomplishment! Congrats to her.

(04-12-2021 12:22 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(04-11-2021 11:26 PM)Magic95Fan Wrote:  According to ESPN, this is the first 21k Perfect Game in NCAA D1 history. Hope is ridiculous.

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/stor...rfect-game

To my mind, a truly perfect game would be 21 outs in 21 batters on 63 pitches, all swinging strikes.

That takes intentionally throwing balls outside the strike zone out of the equation. Pitching is a mental game as well as physical one.

(04-13-2021 07:43 AM)Luckyshot Wrote:  

(04-12-2021 12:22 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(04-11-2021 11:26 PM)Magic95Fan Wrote:  According to ESPN, this is the first 21k Perfect Game in NCAA D1 history. Hope is ridiculous.

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/stor...rfect-game

To my mind, a truly perfect game would be 21 outs in 21 batters on 63 pitches, all swinging strikes.

That takes intentionally throwing balls outside the strike zone out of the equation. Pitching is a mental game as well as physical one.

If you make them swing and miss, it doesn't matter where the pitch is. Remember, I said swinging strikes, not called strikes.

so throw that 0-2 wherever you want. Or that 0-0 pitch. Make them swing...and miss.

That's kind of saying that 21 3-2 counts that result in strikeouts are the same as 21 0-2 counts that result in strikeouts. which would you rather see your pitcher deal with?

That's impressive!
Way to go!

(04-13-2021 08:34 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(04-13-2021 07:43 AM)Luckyshot Wrote:  

(04-12-2021 12:22 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(04-11-2021 11:26 PM)Magic95Fan Wrote:  According to ESPN, this is the first 21k Perfect Game in NCAA D1 history. Hope is ridiculous.

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/stor...rfect-game

To my mind, a truly perfect game would be 21 outs in 21 batters on 63 pitches, all swinging strikes.

That takes intentionally throwing balls outside the strike zone out of the equation. Pitching is a mental game as well as physical one.

If you make them swing and miss, it doesn't matter where the pitch is. Remember, I said swinging strikes, not called strikes.

so throw that 0-2 wherever you want. Or that 0-0 pitch. Make them swing...and miss.

That's kind of saying that 21 3-2 counts that result in strikeouts are the same as 21 0-2 counts that result in strikeouts. which would you rather see your pitcher deal with?

Point taken. However, some batters, by habit, take the first pitch. So by your definition, if the very first batter of the game chooses to take the game's first pitch (or any batter takes any other pitch), the perfect game is already over, even if it's a called strike. That's not fair to the pitcher, first of all. But expecting every batter to swing at every pitch, whether in the strike zone or not, is also just unreasonable. If you had said no called balls, that's a different matter, as there are called strikes and swinging strikes. But you can't in effect 'penalize' a pitcher if one batter decides to take a pitch.

(04-13-2021 10:31 AM)Volkmar Wrote:  

(04-13-2021 08:34 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(04-13-2021 07:43 AM)Luckyshot Wrote:  

(04-12-2021 12:22 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(04-11-2021 11:26 PM)Magic95Fan Wrote:  According to ESPN, this is the first 21k Perfect Game in NCAA D1 history. Hope is ridiculous.

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/stor...rfect-game

To my mind, a truly perfect game would be 21 outs in 21 batters on 63 pitches, all swinging strikes.

That takes intentionally throwing balls outside the strike zone out of the equation. Pitching is a mental game as well as physical one.

If you make them swing and miss, it doesn't matter where the pitch is. Remember, I said swinging strikes, not called strikes.

so throw that 0-2 wherever you want. Or that 0-0 pitch. Make them swing...and miss.

That's kind of saying that 21 3-2 counts that result in strikeouts are the same as 21 0-2 counts that result in strikeouts. which would you rather see your pitcher deal with?

Point taken. However, some batters, by habit, take the first pitch. So by your definition, if the very first batter of the game chooses to take the game's first pitch (or any batter takes any other pitch), the perfect game is already over, even if it's a called strike. That's not fair to the pitcher, first of all. But expecting every batter to swing at every pitch, whether in the strike zone or not, is also just unreasonable. If you had said no called balls, that's a different matter, as there are called strikes and swinging strikes. But you can't in effect 'penalize' a pitcher if one batter decides to take a pitch.

just saying there are different definitions of perfect. In this case, some outcomes would be "more" perfect than others. Just think of any perfect game, and tell me how it could have been better. All of them could be.

Yeah, expecting every batter to swing at every pitch (and miss) is not reasonable. Never said it was reasonable. Just saying it is the most perfect game I can think of. What could be more perfect than that? The most overpowering, dominating game I can think of.

OK, no called balls. The pitcher fools the batter(s) with every one of 63 pitches. Now that is perfection. Even better than than all swinging.

Tremendous accomplishment! [/i]

Not the greatest pitching performance of all times. It was against a horribly bad team. However, throwing 21 strikeouts and a perfect game to boot is historic.

(04-13-2021 04:20 PM)Grandgreen Wrote:  Not the greatest pitching performance of all times. It was against a horribly bad team. However, throwing 21 strikeouts and a perfect game to boot is historic.

Did anyone say it was the greatest performance of all times?

(04-13-2021 06:06 PM)HiddenDragon Wrote:  

(04-13-2021 04:20 PM)Grandgreen Wrote:  Not the greatest pitching performance of all times. It was against a horribly bad team. However, throwing 21 strikeouts and a perfect game to boot is historic.

Did anyone say it was the greatest performance of all times?

I say it was not. Said nothing about what anyone else said.

Until someone tops it, then *statistically* this is the greatest perfect game in collegiate history.

NICELY DONE


I predict it might be matched but will never be topped.

Only way IMO to top it would be to do the same feat in an extra-innings game

Very impressive performance.

Very cool. Wonder if she is good enough to play for team USA in the future.