Generally, if you allow double-digit hits in a game as a pitcher, you and your team probably aren’t going to win that game. If you then add in eight walks to the equation, your odds are going to take an even greater dip. These days, it’s probably not even possible for a pitcher to put up a stat line like that, as a manager is probably pulling his pitcher well before they reach double-digit hits allowed.

However, baseball does not work in absolutes. Especially back in the day, a team often would just let their pitcher go, even if they clearly didn’t have their best stuff. Also, it’s possible to allow a bunch of baserunners but manage to escape innings with just a couple runs allowed. That was the story for Yankees’ pitcher George Pipgras in one 1932 game, where he put up one of the strange

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