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“MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL–AT ITS WORST”
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The Toronto Blue Jays had scouts in the stands watching their prospects in Class A-ball, as New Hampshire opened the season with Portland in the Eastern League on Tuesday night.
What they saw, no one had ever seen in over a hundred years of baseball.
8-runs scored in one inning, before a hit was recorded.
Understand, it was 35-degrees, there had been snow flurries, and we are dealing with 20-years old pitcher, making their first start, in frigid weather.
If you are keeping score at home…here’s the AP report from the inning.
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The inning started innocently enough with two walks, a wild pitch and a strikeout by Portland starter Hayden Mullins, who struck out the side in the first inning. New Hampshire then plated its first run on a sacrifice fly.
With two outs, Mullins then proceeded to walk the next three batters to tie the score at 2 before he was lifted in favor of reliever Jorge Juan, who hit the first batter he faced with the bases loaded.
A wild pitch allowed the fourth run to cross the plate and a walk loaded them up again for the Fisher Cats. Juan then hit another batter (5-2) and threw another wild pitch (6-2) before walking two more batters (7-2) and exiting the game with the bases again loaded.
Enter Cade Feeney, who eventually got out of the inning but not before throwing a wild pitch (8-2) and giving up a two-run single to Ismael Munguia — the only hit of the inning — to make it 10-2.
New Hampshire held on for a 12-7 victory in the chilly conditions.
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