Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for June 17, 2024

In what league are you “awarded first?!?” It was such a good hit that she doesn’t have to run?

Plus, what high school player has 27 RBIs in a comparatively short season to MLB and gets a hit 3 out of every 4 at bats? Come on!

P2A: “HEEE-YAHHHH!”

Odd non sequitur in P2.

“Off” to left field? Keri is “awarded” first? Does that mean she got a hit? The announcing continues to be weird.

Is that a black dragon head behind the CF fence? Or have I seen too many HOTD Season 2 promos?

P2: Isn’t it, Henry and Rod?

A triple play today! P1 to P2 to P3 – things no announcer would say, ever!

P2.5 And I Keri it with me and-I sing I loud / If it gets me nowhere I’ll go there proud.

Keri gets herself some TANG!

Never seen a batting average expressed with 0. in front of it.

I’ve never shook my head in disbelief at a non-political comic, until today.

Can we please get anyone’s 6-year old niece or nephew be hired by these guys as a technical advisor on how sports is expressed here on Earth One?

Henry, just FYI. In the entire history of major league baseball, the highest batting average for a season is only about .471.

.751 BA? Is she hitting off a tee? With an average that high, Keri Thorp has a better chance of going pro than Rodney Barnes.

Are they playing in England or something?

She gets a hit 75% of the time? I find that harder to believe than her being “awarded” first base after hitting the ball to left field.

0.751 = Keri’s IUD effectiveness rate.

Awarded? Out writer is clueless about sports. Things are earned in sports.

Welcome to Bizarro world!

Ground rule single raises Peanut’s average to 0.754

Marty…She wasn’t awarded First Base. Keri earned every inch!

Take out your Capt. Midnight decoder rings and review the last 2 P3s. A shameless plug for the Wap Tang musical group from an era Keri wasn’t even around for.

P 2: Moon throws in a little comedy in his broadcast every now and then.

No, no, you’re all getting it wrong! Keri hit an ordinary single & ran to first. But she broke the all time Enormous State hit record, so they paused the game, pulled up first base, awarded it to her, and put in a new one. Now she has to run the bases holding the bag, but still, a great honor.

Rod Carew, Ted Williams, and Roger Hornsby step aside she has outhit you by at least a .300 percentage

Keri’s awful the other .249 times at bat.

And we as readers have seen all 27 RBI’s. 751 average as a sophomore?? All State for sure. Or is she a Junior?? Time has little meaning in this strip.

From today’s Comics Curmudgeon:

I don’t really follow competitive softball, so, uh, is a 0.751 batting average something someone would actually have, even in a terrific season? That seems less “terrific” and more “oh my GOD” and you’d have media following you around the country. On the other hand, even though a batting average of course represents a decimal number, usually a sportscaster would just say “seven fifty one” not “zero point seven fifty one,” so maybe Keri is getting a hit seven or eight times out of every 10,000 at-bats, which is honestly less impressive.

i guess smelling dorothy makes you a better hitter

cami says if the team wins she will treat the whole team to a bag of pork rinds

why is the pitcher wearing mickey mouse ears ?

P1- Oakwood batted already so is this the top of the second?

P2- JaJaJaJaJaJaJaJaJaJaJaJaJaJaJaJa!!!!!!!

P3- “Keri is awarded first along with a yellow ribbon and two gold stars. Gil must be very proud of her.”

“0.751” makes my eyes bleed.

Are they playing at Camden Yards? Is that the warehouse building in right field? And speaking of warehouses, no matter ware [sic] you are in your house, you should be running to read today’s Mopped Up Thorp.

moppedupthorp wordpress com/2024/06/17/grumpire-doesnt-like-keri/

For her thousandth hit Keri is awarded first base —literally. the umpire hands it to her as a trophy. “Uh, thanks.”

“When Keri said she didn’t wear a teddy, you knew she was a rotten kid, but when she threatened your life with a butter knife…what a guy, made you cry, und I did.”

For those questyioning the BA, it’s very feasible.

www maxpreps com/softball/stat-leaders/batting-average/ba/

All you math whizzes out there, help me figure out what combination of at bats and hits you’d need to have a .751 batting average. I get .750, but .751. It seems like you’d need an enormous number of at bats to pick up that one extra point.

.751? My a$$…. Not impossible as some snarkers have pointed out, but a head case like peanut? No way, unless of course, the pitchers she normally faces are lobbing it in there like in-house kids do.

I’m beginning to think Henry is playing with us. He knows the mistakes he plants in his story lines.

Keri Thorp, the modern day Marla Hooch