This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars.

If you're a baseball fan, you might remember the 1997 playoffs.

That's when pitcher Levine Hernandez was unstoppable.

Can Lavan Hernandez get out of it?

Yes he can.

Hernandez was a rookie for the Florida Marlins

and his masterpiece was game five of the National League Championship series against Atlanta.

That's producer Chris Perubei.

Levine Hernandez struck out 15 batters that game, which for context is so many baders.

It was an incredible night but a lot of his strikes

but a lot of his strikes they weren't actually strikes

Hernandez was pretty consistently missing the zone

Eric break punches him out on what McGriff thought was ball for.

It's his 15th.

This pitch is, I would say, a foot, two feet outside of the strike zone.

Not close called a strike.

That's baseball analyst Katie Nolan.

She vividly remembers that game because it really was not good.

I mean, okay, second pitch, way outside called a strike.

Agregious. Agregious.

Katie and I re-watched video from that game with, let's call it a perverse fascination.

Almost none of the batters actually swung at his pitches.

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