Nope. Batters enter the season with no batting average (0 hits in 0 ab's is not 0, it doesn't exist). Only after they have an official at bat can you calculate a batting average. You need 2 no hitters.
Ok Buck, stop reading too much into it. It was just a simple thing I read on ESPN: Bob Feller pitched a no-hitter on Opening Day of the 1940 season, providing the answer to this conundrum: How it is possible for every hitter on a team to finish a game with the exact batting average as when they started? Now leave me alone!
You want to challenge BobFinn* in baseball trivia and you can't even get the answer to your own trivia post correct? Stick to the brisket. ROOKIE.
technically (ode to Behad), yes. nobody on the losing team gets charged with an at-bat in a forfeit. but the game also (again for Behad ) technically, doesn't (iirc) have an official beginning or end...i.e. no innings are pitched. Damn I shoulda gone to law school.
Ok, ok...one more. Here is Jeff Weaver's batting stats: 2003 NYY 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/stats?statsId=6200&context=batting Notice he played two games, yet has no official AB's...yet he is shown to have a .000 batting average! Why is that, Buck? A wok? Too close to on topic. Bring a microphone.
Because MLB and Bud Selig, in all of their infinite wisdom, refuse to obey the laws of mathematics. I dunno. Alls I do know is zero divided by zero ain't zero. sorry AB... edit: ahhh hell, behad, you may be right. it's been awhile since i took math & stuff, i know you can't divide a number by zero, not sure if dividing zero by zero follows the same rules/logic. **** it, my brain hurts. I don't really care that much. Happy hour in 5 minutes. Have a good weekend all.
0 divided by 0 IS 0. Anything divided zero = zero... sorry didn't see the edit before I started the reply. I need a brewsky, too.
Ahhh crap. Everytime i try to get out...they pull me back in. You can't divide a number (i.e. 3 ) by zero. Mathematically impossible. However, zero may be the exception. 0/0=0 may be correct. Then again, you may be using that "new math" i've heard so much about. Math geeks to the rescue!!!
I don't know if this is correct, but I checked my computer calculator and my graphing one and they both show 0/0 to having no answer or undefined. Or something like that. But a calculator isn't a math professor.
That's true, and I hated math, but any math teacher will tell you that you can't divide something by nothing.
But a parallel diversion with refence to why we were there in the first place. What if all the hitters were traded after their first strike out.
