Why do they use K in scoring for strikeout (baseball)?
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K is the last letter in struck, as in struck out. Now a backwards K signifies the batter struck out without swinging.Want a link for when Doubleheaders are being played ??/MLB?
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Because when scorekeeping originally started, K was the first letter in the word strikeout not designated to another statistic. S- sacrifice, T-triple (later changed to 3B), R-run, I-inning. It caught on, and there was never need for change.k is for kill.
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A strikeout is also know as a punch out and the K comes from Knockout. This is just my theory, probably not right.Does Baseball need to start using instant replay?
because the first player to record a strike out was jim (koala) johnson, from australia, on the 1869 reds. he did so against a man called sam knight of the mississippi river men. when the third strike was called, all the 100 people watching the game started yelling k (for koala) and it stuck ever since. actually i have no clue but i put a lot of time and thought into this amazing but useless story!While the last letter in struck is probably the most accurate reason for the letter k being used (a system credited to Henry Chadwick), there is another theory...
They say it came from a 19th century pitcher by the name of Matt Kilroy... He was a prominent strikeout pitcher who once struck out 513! in one season... of course...this was 1886, the mound was only 50' from the batter, and over-handed pitching had only been around for 2 years.
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Maybe K stands for knockout and when you srike him out its like knocking him out i dont know.How many pitchers can you use in a game?
I've been told that it is because when the umpire yells "striKe" the K sound really stands out. I always thought that was BS, though.More Questions & Answers...