Thread: This is New York baseball

So what if there is a switch pitcher and a switch hitter facing each other at the same time?

From the Associated Press:

NEW YORK - A switch hitter against a switch pitcher?

It was almost as confusing as the old routine, "Who's on First."

When ambidexterious pitcher Pat Venditte made his professional debut for the Class A Staten Island Yankees this week, the fourth batter he faced from the Brooklyn Cyclones was switch-hitter Ralph Henriquez.

He took his on-deck swings as a left-hander, but entered the batter's box as a righty.

At that point, pitcher Venditte flipped his specially-made, six-finger glove to his left hand so he could throw with his right.

Faced with the switch-pitcher, the switch-hitter immediately jumped back to the other side of the plate.

And so it went as they hopped back and forth several times, until the umpires finally decided the pitcher and batter can change sides only one time per at-bat.

Seven minutes after he first stepped in, the frustrated Henriquez struck out as a righty against a right-handed Venditte.

Staten Island won, 7 to 2.

630 CHED - Oddities

And....here is the vid. . .

Wow that is pretty cool.

This kid if he was a starter could pitch two days in a row.