High Pitch Counts
With three games in the books today, managers have proven to be reluctant to go to their bullpens, seeing plenty of pitchers go deep into ball games.
- Jon Lester threw 120 pitches in 7 innings of 2 hit ball against the Phillies in the Red Sox 5-2 victory.
- Justin Verlander also tossed the baseball 120 times in his outing (7 IP, 7 H, 1 R, 6 K) against the Mets, finally stopping an offense that had scored 30 runs the last two days.
- C.C. Sabathia needed 118 pitches to strike out 13 Brewers in 7.2 innings during the Yankees 5-0 victory.
- Mike Pelfrey and Randy Wolf both threw 109 pitches and both took the loss.
- Only Cole Hamels who left after four innings and 53 pitches after being struck with a line drive. X-Rays came back negative.
Sure, most of these starters are their team’s aces and are known for being workhorses, but I think that the managers, nursing hangovers that bled into today’s afternoon start times, had no desire to make that walk to the mound more than necessary.
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In Verlander’s case, it was because...been destroyed by the Mets scoring
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