In baseball what does "K" reference in terms of strikeouts?

Question:Where does "K" come from?

Answers:

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Henry Chadwick, the creator of the scoring system needed S for sacrifice, so he chose K for strikeout - K being the last letter of "struck," which was then more commonly used than "strikeout". Chadwick was a journalist who started the idea of scoring games in order to have a more contained score when writing his columns. He also invented the 1-9 position system as well (1-Pitcher, 2-Catcher, 3-First-baseman...etc.).

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stri "K" eout

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S is used for single, so K comes from the word strike.

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a "K" is the symbol for a strikeout... so if a pitcher in a game has 12 K, that means he struck-out 12 batters in that game.

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It comes from the K in strike. It is also designated that way on score cards.

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Along with the rest of the answers, a backwards K represents a batter that struck out looking at strike 3, (rather than swinging at it).