Why is a strikeout in baseball called a K?
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If you don't want to read the whole following quotation, then it is summarized as saying that a newspaper journalist used K because S was for sacrifice and K is the last letter in struck (as in struck out). Here's the quotation if you do feel like reading it:"The use of "K" for a strikeout was invented by Henry Chadwick, a newspaper journalist who is widely credited as the originator of the box score and the baseball scorecard. Both the box score and scorecard persist largely unchanged to this day, as the game itself is largely unchanged except for the number of balls and strikes allowed to the pitcher and batter. The letter "S" was used to coin "sacrifice" so Mr. Chadwick decided to use "K", with "K" being the last letter in "struck."
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In scoring, a swinging strikeout is recorded as a K, or a K-S. Some scorers record strikeouts where the batter didn't swing at the last pitch with a backwards-facing K, also recorded as K-C. The use of "K" for a strikeout was invented by Henry Chadwick, a newspaper journalist who is widely credited as the originator of the box score and the baseball scorecard. Both the box score and scorecard persist largely unchanged to this day, as the game itself is largely unchanged except for the number of balls and strikes allowed to the pitcher and batter. The letter "S" was used to coin "sacrifice" so Mr. Chadwick decided to use "K", with "K" being the last letter in "struck."Ask more baseball questions at RootZoo.com and you'll get some great discussions going with other sports fans. Set up a screenname and check it out, you'll like it. You'll be a great addition to the community.
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Basically what has already been stated...it was setup by Chadwick for doing box scores. Different scorers record different strikeouts different ways (backwards K's, etc.) but the basic idea is you want every action to be easily abbreviated. S was being used for sacrifice, so he picked K for struck out. Sorta like how a walk isn't a W (win), but rather referred to as base on balls, or BB. You want them all to make at least a bit of sense, and I imagine S for sacrifice and K for strike out makes more sense to the average fan to look at than S or SO for strikeout (look at your baseball cards though and you'll see lots of SO) and trying something else of sacrifice. Plus, S then works great when trying to differentiate between a sac S and sac fly SF.But basically, to make a short story long, Chadwick picked it because it made sense to him, and he probably thought it would make sense to look at.
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A strike is called a K because it is easier to put them into a group. Example, C. C. Sabathia strikes out ten batters (and he did): KKKKKKKKKKMore Questions & Answers...