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Her name was Jackie Mitchell, 17 years old, 130#, "lefty". The strikeouts happened at an exhibition game in Chattanooga, TN. on April 2, 1931.

AnswerIt was stunt. Neither Gehrig or Ruth took the at bat seriously. It was a gag. AnswerBabe Dedrickson Zaharias

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She threw one of every pitch to get them to full count, and then lobbed it so high that they were so used to swinging the Baseball bat like a baseball bat that the last thing they'd think of was swinging it like a driver at a Golf-ball on a golf-tee.

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Jackie Mitchell struck out Babe Ruth with 4 pitches. 1 pitch was high for a ball. Then the following 3 pitches were strikes. The following batter was Lou Gheric and was struck out on 3 pitches

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Carl Hubbell of the New York Giants in the first inning of the 1934 All-Star game.

After striking out Ruth and Gehrig, Hubbell struckout Jimmie Foxx to end the first inning and then struckout Al Simmons and Joe Cronin to start the second inning.

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