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Hello and welcome to episode 1029 of Effectively Wild Apes While Podcasts from

Bandgraphs, presented by our Patreon supporters, I am Ben the Berg of the

Ringer, doing by Jeff Sullivan of Bandgraphs. Hello, hi, doing an email

episode, so we're gonna get to questions in a minute. I have a few follow-ups

from listeners about things that we've talked about recently. We've emailed

about a couple of these things, but Jay wrote in to say, I know it's not quite the

same thing as what you guys were talking about, last email show with the

intentional walks and the new minimum number of pitches that would be

required to get through an inning, but it did make me wonder what the fewest

pitches anyone has ever thrown while still getting a full inning of work was, and

it turns out that there's been only one time that a pitcher threw only one pitch

to get a full inning of work. It was Jeff Nelson in 1995 and this was July 13th,

1995, game between the Mariners and the Blue Jays, magical season, perhaps you

remember it, that's your favorite baseball season of all time, right? This was

not the highlight of that season, but I was the turning point, the highlight for

that team. Yeah, so I will link to this play because it's actually on YouTube,

thanks MLB Advanced Media, but we were looking at the the box score, so Jeff

Nelson comes in and he throws one pitch and he gets a triple play on a

bunch, which is crazy. And as you mentioned, this might be the worst

bunch of all time. Well, I was curious about that. And then I just Googled

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