Posted on 05/20/2005 11:43:09 AM PDT by nuconvert
Girl Pitches Perfect Little League Game
Thu May 19, 2005
Katie Brownell is in a Little League all her own. The 11-year-old — the only girl playing in the Oakfield-Alabama Little League program — pitched a perfect game Saturday for her Dodgers. She struck out all 18 batters she faced in the six-inning, 11-0 victory over the Yankees.
Oakfield-Alabama officials said they can't remember anybody ever throwing a perfect game in this western New York league between Buffalo and Rochester.
In two games on the mound, Katie has struck out 32 of 33 batters. And she's hitting .714 through the team's first three games.
"She's been pitching for three years, but she really came on and excelled this year," said team manager Jeff Sage.
Katie was almost pulled out of Saturday's game until the scorekeeper reminded her coach she had a no-hitter going. Katie then kept mowing down the opposition and when the last batter was fanned, the crowd erupted.
"Everybody congratulated me," she said.
We have a girl on my sons' lacrosse team. Scrappy as all get out. I love this kind of story.
Outstanding! Good for her
I wish the Colorado Rockies would put her in the bullpen. She couldn't but help those bums.
She needs to start working on her underhand fastpitch so she can play softball when she gets older.
Yeah... but did she strike them all out on 3 pitches?
I coached a no-hitter in little league once. All four pitchers walked every batter they faced until the game was called in the 5th inning. LOL.
In a related sstory, all 5 men from "Queer Eye" were found to have created perfect outfits for Dress Up Barbie when they were 5 to 9 years of age.
Lol
*Ping!*
Great story; thanks for posting it.
" She struck out all 18 batters she faced in the six-inning victory. She never got to a three-ball count on any of them.
"As far back as I can remember, I don't ever recall hearing of a perfect game," said Eric Klotzbach, league president.
Katie, who is in 6th grade, also pitched a one-hitter in the first game of the year. She accounted for all 15 outs in the five innings she pitched in that game. She had 14 strikeouts and got the other out on a grounder to the mound that she tossed to first."
http://www.athleticsnation.com/story/2005/5/18/201416/636
Thanx for the pic
This is quite an accomplishment. Too bad she throws like a girl. LOL!!
Always good to hear of the Yankees losing. This time to an 11 year old girl!
Right on, young lady!!! I'd love to coach a kid like that!
She sounds like Scout Finch incarnate! :)
killjoy
What a nice story! It's good to hear these positive things instead of all the bad news we've been hearing lately.
I bet she owns a Whizzinator.
I'm serious. Good for her, it's quite a feat, obviously, made naitonal news. I'm just saying in a few years she'll get a rude awakening when she discovers that guys tend to get stronger and faster than girls around the age of 14 or 15
My first husband was a really great fastpitch pitcher. He had a riser no one could hit. One year, in a local tournament, he had 23 scoreless, hitless innings. We were so proud of him. He was by far one of the best fastpitch pitchers in our area. One only was better, Joe Lewis, from Griffiss Air Base in Rome. Those were the good old days. My oldest grandson looks just like him when he pitches. He's a good baseball pitcher but going down the wrong road right now. (Not unlike his granddad.)
Oakfield-Alabama bttt! Grew up there. Great little town.
From the PC side of the aisle, have grief counselors been arranged for the boys who were struck-out by a girl? Is nobody out there concerned about the stigma that those boys must deal with? Oh - the shame of it all!
"It's good to hear these positive things instead of all the bad news we've been hearing lately."
Please don't read the next thread I posted.
By next week we'll probably learn that Katie Brownell is actually a 15 year-old boy from the Dominican Republic.
Uff Dah!
Isn't there a 70 pitch rule in there or something? Been too many years since I coached Little League.
My son plays Little League. I thought there was a maximum that each pitcher can only pitch one inning. Otherwise, they can hurt their arm.
I think it is so many pitches per game, thought it was 70 but maybe could be 80, just not sure.
She's got a couple of years yet. A gifted athlete can usualy transfer her skills to another sport, let alone a slightly different version of the same one. She looks fairly tall, she probably plays basketball and/or volleyball as well. Some high school is going to get really lucky. Then some college will do the same, although by that time most likely only for her best or favorite sport.
Won't she be on her high school softball team by about 14 or 15 and competing against other girls?
The rude awakening at that point might be that there just may be some use to boys afterall!
My brother used to have 75 mph fastball. That's a 75 mph softball coming at you from much closer than a "hardball" pitch does. I don't suppose he's that fast anymore, he turns 49 this June, but as of last year he was still flinging the old ball, and playing first base (you don't have to run much to play first base :) ).
Asphalt, since you're a 14 year old boy, are you really expressing envy about something she did that you haven't been able to do?
If throwing a fastball at 95 miles an hour were the only requirement for being a pitcher in college or the pros, then I suppose Charlie Hough, Tim Wakefield, the Niekro brothers, Tom Candiotti, and others should have given up the knuckleball and become insurance salesmen, eh?
She's got potential, son. For all of her sporting life.
You're full of used food on this one. I know quite a few girls who were, and remain, very good athletes. Many of them started out competing against and defeating boys. They're into competition, not "beating boys." They do just fine when they transition into girls' leagues, where they compete against other girls who started out beating boys.
This past Sunday, a local 8 year old pulled off an unassisted triple play.
Mercy rules -- they'll stop the inning if you bat around the order some designated number of times.
"Unfortunatley girls like that tend to get amazingly conceited and when they get a little older and the boys are more developed they have rude awakening. It's not bad, but it won't be remembered 50 years from now except maybe by her"
Sheesh, you sound insecure. She doesn't appear to be conceited now, so why project into the future? Also, brute strength doesn't translate directly to pitching speed anyway. I was a skinny guy in HS, despite my best efforts, and far from the strongest, but not one person could approach my pitching speed (or dodgeball speed,ha!). You're last sentence is just pathetic.
This past Sunday, a local 8 year old pulled off an unassisted triple play. And I forgot to mention that the 8 year old is a girl...
I think the limit is 6 innings per week.
Limit of 5 runs per inning.
Wow. That's impressive!
There's one girl in my son's baseball league (9-10 yr olds). She's pretty good too. She's played on his soccer team also. Although she's on another team, I root for her when she's up to bat. She reminds me of myself at that age, but then girls weren't allowed to play baseball, only softball.
Oh yeah, that's really cool.
Hey macadamia -
I thought the same thing til I read his FR homepage. He's 14. Of course he's insecure about girls. That'll change when he's, OK, no it won't. At any age.
"That'll change when he's, OK, no it won't."
LOL
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