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.
For perspective, a baseball pitcher would have to throw a ball at 107.5 miles per hour to match Abbot's record-breaking pitch, reports MonicaAbbott.com. However, the fastest baseball pitch on record is 100.9 miles per hour, thrown by the California Angels' Nolan Ryan during a game against the Detroit Tigers held in 1974.