Lateral Thinking Questions

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ANSWER: L.T.Q. #10

Date: Tuesday, August 22, 1995 2:51PM

All the non-junk from my old desk is still packed in the moving boxes, where it will stay until someone finds a permanent home for me. Because of this, the cards with the Lateral Thinking questions are still boxed away. If I get a chance to dig for them, I'll send out another question. In the meantime, here are some outstanding answers*.

Here is this week's question:

It was in a major league baseball game that a pitcher faced only 27 batters. Every batter he faced, he struck out. He allowed no hits and no runs. His team lost 4 - 0. How could this be possible?

ANSWER:

This was a Home game, and the first pitcher was a no-good bum, who let four runs score without getting a single out! The manager, disgusted by this performance, called in our hero, the Relief Pitcher, who proceeded to pitch a perfect game for the remainder. (If it were an Away game, the home team, leading 4-0, would not have batted the bottom of the ninth, and therefore, the pitcher would have only faced 24 batters.)

* NOTE: Because the actual answer cards are still packed away, I'm giving you these answers from my memory. E&OE. So there.

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