{"id":392581,"date":"2024-05-10T17:58:26","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T17:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=392581"},"modified":"2024-05-10T18:03:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T18:03:24","slug":"florida-baseball-commit-aidan-king-strikes-out-20-batters-in-seven-inning-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=392581","title":{"rendered":"Florida baseball commit Aidan King strikes out 20 batters in seven-inning game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">month of<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0May: A time for flowers,\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Mother&#8217;s<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0Day, and 20-strikeout games.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Former Chicago Cubs pitcher Kerry Wood achieved this feat on May 6, 1998, striking out 20 Astros in a one-hit shutout. Former Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Randy Johnson did so on May 8, 2001, striking out 20 through nine innings in an extra-inning game. Max Scherzer got 20 Ks for the Washington Nationals on May 11, 2016. And on Wednesday night, the anniversary of the Big\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Unit&#8217;s<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0performance, Aidan King of Bishop Snyder High School (Jacksonville, Fla.) accomplished the same, and he can say something the others\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">can&#8217;t<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">King did it in a seven-inning game. He struck out 20 of the 21 Providence School batters he retired and only faced 24 total after allowing a single and a walk in the fourth inning, picking up a\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">fielder&#8217;s<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0choice to end the frame, and then hitting a batter in the seventh inning, according to the\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jacksonville.com\/story\/sports\/high-school\/baseball\/2024\/05\/08\/aidan-king-20-strikeout-game-bishop-snyder-high-school-pitcher\/73623502007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Florida Times-Union<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Other than that fourth inning, the fielders\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">might as well<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0have\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">not<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">even<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0been out there.<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0King mowed down the order through the rest of the game.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">He finished the game at 105 pitches, the exact standard limit of the Florida High School Athletic Association<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, according to the Florida Times-Union<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">With that performance \u2014 and a solo home run \u2014 King led Bishop Snyder to a 3-0 win in the Region 1-3A quarterfinals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">King is a top-100 prospect committed to the University of Florida.\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This season, he has a record of 9-1 with a 0.81 ERA and 138 strikeouts in 69.33 innings<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, according to the Florida Times-Union<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The 19-8 Cardinals will take on Pensacola Catholic in the regional semifinals\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">on Friday<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Bishop Snyder ace Aidan King struck out 20 batters in a playoff win on the anniversary of Randy Johnson&#8217;s 20-K game in 2001.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=392581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392582,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392581\/revisions\/392582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=392581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=392581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=392581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}