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Originally Posted by briancurtin
Then who else in the stadium is tasked with keeping an accurate count of balls and strikes if it's not the guy who is writing down everything about the game including balls and strikes?
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Balls and strikes are not official stats (neither are holds and blown saves) so the OS does not report on these. See
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/downloads/y20...ball_rules.pdf
Section 10
The pitch counts, holds and blown saves are done by on site in the press box stringers who input games for MLB.com or STATS.