Freestyle. The freestyle stroke involves the use of muscles in your hands -- the thenars -- and arms -- the biceps and triceps -- to help you glide through the water smoothly. In one motion, your entire body is engaged in the forward action of the freestyle move.
The likelihood of a pitcher completing nine innings if he throws an average of 14 pitches or less per inning is reinforced by the totals of the 89 games in which pitchers did actually complete nine innings of work.
Explaining arm troubles that curtailed his work at the end of the 1977 season, Ryan said that he had thrown around 7,000 pitches in 299 innings spread over 37 starting assignments. If accurate, that would mean an average of about 23 pitches per inning and nearly 190 per game.