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Old Wed Apr 04, 2012, 11:02pm
Rich Ives Rich Ives is offline
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Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve View Post
64 MPH? Did the ball bounce up and hit the batter? Was Satchel Paige throwing an Ephus pitch? Perhaps the batter was a slow kid with slow reactions and couldn't get out of the way, or was so mesmerized by the ball coming in looking like a beach ball that he froze.

I'm not ejecting any pitcher who tries to hit a batter with a 64 MPH pitch.
Trying to hit the batter is an automatic ej - and it's usually really obvious.
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