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Ronald Andrew Necciai eh-chai (born June 18, 1932 in Gallatin, Pennsylvania), is a former
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who played with the
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in the 1952 season. He batted and threw right-handed. Necciai is best remembered for the unique feat of
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27 batters in a nine-inning game, which he accomplished while playing with the Class-D
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team, the
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, on May 13, 1952. He is the only pitcher ever to do so in a nine-inning, professional-league game.


Minor League career

Necciai pitched two seasons of Class-D baseball before being drafted in the Pirates' farm system in 1952 at age 19. He was assigned to pitch for the Bristol Twins, the Pirates' Appalachian League team. On May 13, pitching despite painful
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s, Necciai struck out 27 batters while throwing a 7–0
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against the Welch Miners. Four of the Welch hitters did reach base, one runner each via a
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, an
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, a
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and a
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charged to Twins'
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Harry Dunlop on a swinging third strike. This resulted in a four-strikeout ninth inning. Only two batters put the ball in play: Robert Ganung grounded out to first base in the fourth inning, while Frank Whitehead got on base on an error in the ninth. In his next start, Necciai threw a 24-strikeout two-hitter. In that season he struck out 109 hitters in 43 innings with Bristol, and a
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-high 172 in 126 innings at Burlington before quickly climbing the ranks of the organization and eventually getting called up to the Major Leagues amid heavy publicity in August 1952.


Major League career

At 20 years old, Necciai posted a 1–6 record with 31 strikeouts and a 7.08
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in 54
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from August 10 to September 28, 1952, the single season comprising his entire Major League Baseball career.


Later years

Necciai served a brief stint in the
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in 1953 before being released on a medical discharge. He returned to baseball thereafter, but was plagued by injuries resulting from his long-standing battle with stomach ulcers and further debilitation from a torn
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. He spent the years between 1953 and 1955 in various lower levels of professional baseball, but was ultimately unable to overcome injuries. He later began a successful career in the sporting goods industry.


See also

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List of Major League Baseball pitchers with 18 strikeouts in one game In baseball, a strikeout occurs when a pitcher throws three strikes to a batter during his time at bat. Twenty different pitchers have struck out at least 18 batters in a single nine-inning Major League Baseball (MLB) game as of 2016, the ...


References

;In-line citations ;Further reading * Dennis Snelling: ''A Glimpse of Fame'', McFarland & Company, Jefferson N.C., 1993, pp. 135–149 *


External links


The Man Who Struck Out Everybody (article)(profile)
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