A curveball or slider.
Shortstop Rickey Gutierrez holds the record for most pitches seen in an at-bat. The amount of pitches was 20 total.
The Batter can get to base: 1) with a good hit from a swing 2) when the pitcher pitches 4 balls 3) when the batter is hit by a pitched ball
At a High school softball game and the batter hit 21 foul balls in 26 pitches. She then walked.
To hit someone in the face with the ball when you try to have them hit it. The pitcher pitches and the ball hits the batter.
in 1993 tanner regez threw 12 pitches to jimmy regez his brother.
If I am the pitcher who pitches up and in, I might hit a batter or get warned for throwing at a batter if the umpire thinks it was done intentionally. If I am the batter who gets the pitch up and in I am probably "brushed back" off the plate, and maybe even hit.
Craig Biggio
Chase Utley
No, why should the batter be penalized for "staying alive" by fouling off pitches. The classic confrontation between pitcher and batter is the heart of baseball.
The only way a hit-by-pitch walk can be recorded is if the batter is actually hit by the pitcher. Once another defensive player has touched the ball it is no longer the pitcher's responsibility.
That is when you walk the batter on purpose, by intentionally throwing 4 pitches out of the strike zone, hopefully far out enough where he can't hit it.