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These are cases in which correlation does not equal causation.Managers (good ones, anyway) don’t take pitchers out because of other players errors. The reasons the pitcher may come out are:ineffectiveness;pitch count-the pitcher has reached his or her pitch or innings limit, either by rule (as in little league) or by the managers’ knowledge of the pitchers’ waning effectiveness;playing match-ups, bringing in another pitcher whose skill set or handedness matches more favorably for the next batter(s), or;injury.If you see a manager make a pitching change right after an error, it is almost never BECAUSE of the error.

Cool question! So from my perspective I see two reasons why the K or the backwards K is used to abbreviate a strikeout - historical and functional. It's also important to quickly note that technically using (SO) is acceptable but probably not a common practice.For starters, the history element boils down to the decision to use K by the father of baseball, (Henry Chadwick) as another answer points out with regards to the origin. The S according to the story had already been used when it came time to notate a strikeout and knockout and “K” seemed close enough… again, according to the unofficial tale. I don't see the K being arbitrary either but that might be caused by my romantic feelings toward baseball. In my baseball world everything was purposeful and I imagine given boxings popularity at this time in history using the K was also easily interpreted by fans new to the game-given the knockout ends a fight and the strikeout ends an at bat. It's also hard to not notice that when an umpire calls strike three it almost looks like they make a “punch out” motion. So, again when baseball was new I like to think someone wanted to make it easier to understand and related the K to boxing.Functionally, using the K fits into the amazing web of notations that are possible when keeping score using a scorecard. Also, because of the crazy numbers of scenarios that can happen in one at bat a scorecard doesn't allow you to just simply write a sentence explaining what happened. Here is the run down of possible notations in a typical or standard scorebook.Here is an example of how much room a typical sized scorebook provides for a single at bat.Now, as an example of an actual at bat, a ground ball to the shortstop who fields it and throws it to first getting the runner out would, on a scorecard, look something like: 6-3 and then a 1 with a circle around it indicating an out. You can of course see writing the story of the at bat would require a lot more room on an already crowded space but a ground out fits inside the space and explains exactly what happened, when it happened as well as which players were involved and what they did.In the image you can see it's as much a size issue as anything else when it comes to using the K as a notation but I'll take it a step further and show a strikeout with 10 pitches and it really gets obvious that small notations are a must when using a scorecard.Pitch count is important and actually given its Little League World Series time while I'm writing this - in some leagues pitch count is a huge part of the rules. In this example, I'm showing ten pitches 5 notated by the ball and strike boxes and 5 dots that essentially are foul balls to keep it simple. Just a strikeout can end up using up a lot of space and that's not even considering if the catcher misses the third strike the batter actually strikes out but also could be safe at first because of the error. With the batter that struck out but reached first on the error scenario… now you need to monitor their progress around the bases and many other potential scenarios -including them scoring which means coloring in the diamond and also means you can't put the K in the middle of the diamond like I did in my example.“Keeping the book” as a lot of people call using a scorecard to document a baseball game is an art form and certainly something I never mastered. For me, the question about why use K to abbreviate the strikeout comes down to one man’s decision a while ago and the minimal size provided on a typical scorecard/book.This question was great to think about and also reminded me of our high school team manager. This kid would end up with a scorebook that if you understood the notation would walk you through a game and it looked beautiful. KB is still one of my favorite teammates of all time.To close up, I always say if you're new to baseball try to keep the scorebook a couple times and quickly you'll be immersed in the game… if you decide you like baseball from there you'll have a great understanding of the game and probably know more players names than most fans!For you, Frisco has one of the great American Ballparks as you know and would be one of my top three places to practice using the “K” while keeping the scorebook.Thanks for the question. Baseball is a blast to talk about.

On what pitch count do the most hits happen in Major League Baseball?I will provide this answer based on stats from the 2019 season in MLB. Over the season the most hits were on the first pitch. Okay, here is the list, pitch count/total hits delivered on that count in 2019....0-0 68390-1 49642-2 48721-1 48491-2 44971-0 38183-2 36802-1 30020-2 25682-0 15033-1 12963-0 152There is your answer, at least for last season. Let me provide a little bonus info that many readers will find hard to believe. In MLB, 2019, all players who came to the plate, collectively batted .252 (batting average). Here is what all players hit when a pitch was delivered on a particular count......0-0 .3541-0 .3512-0 .3673-0 .4100-1 .3291-1 .3372-1 .3513-1 .363See anything unusual here? When the at bat ended, say, on the 2-0 pitch, all players combined in both leagues hit .367. In fact, on every single count listed (which is all counts except 2 strike counts) the batting average was no lower than .329. How can that be, you might ask, when ballplayers hit just .252 overall? Here is what they hit on the 2 strike counts......0-2 .1491-2 .1612-2 .1803-2 .202That is the advantage the pitcher enjoys when they get two strikes on the batter. Overall when there are two strikes on the batter (all counts), the batting average is .173. Conversely, with no strikes MLB hitters bat .355. When the batter is ahead in the count he hits .295. When the pitcher is ahead the batter hits .200.Illustrates why it's so important for the pitcher to get ahead of the hitter.