Strikeout looking

In baseball or softball, a strikeout looking is a strikeout in which a batter, having incurred two strikes already, does not swing on their third strike called by the umpire — meaning the batter does not attempt to hit a pitch called as being within the strike zone. In scorekeeping, strikeouts are a statistic often denoted by the letter "K", with strikeouts looking being sometimes denoted by a reversed K ("Ʞ"). Though the pitcher records a strikeout looking, it can also be said that the batter was "caught looking" when struck out in this manner.

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