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Your Texas Rangers were struck out 17 times today by Minnesota's Johan Santana. That's a lot of strikeouts.
Of course, the "K" represents a strike out. But this screen shot from SportsCenter taken from the stadium in Minnesota got my attention. They turn the third "K" around in an attempt to avoid an uncomfortable three strike out moment.
Edit: I'm wrong on this based upon the comments. Learn something every day.
7 comments:
I watched the game and was sweating like an afro american on Jeopardy.
In the scorebook a backwards K is when a batter takes a called third strike.
Actually the backwards K means that the batter struck out looking.
Which happened a couple of tine hence the couple of backwards K's.
A backswards K make me say Um-kay Um-kay so let's all say Um-kay all day Um-kay.
I used to score baseball for many, many years and never heard of the backward K. Is that something new?
Using KS for strikeout swinging and KC for strikeout called is also acceptable. They don't use 2 letters on the scoreboard because it would take up too much space. Ergo, the backward K to represent called out on strikes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_scorekeeping
Did someone just cite Wikipedia as a reliable source?
The backward K is a well known symbol, not just used to save space.
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