Talking About Pitch Counts

ShysterBall had a post yesterday about the science of pitch counts, citing an article that suggested that teams should look a little more closely at how their pitchers tire during the game. Sometimes a simple pitch count doesn’t tell the whole story. However, the most interesting part of the post to me was a section that highlighted a couple of guys and their ridiculous pitch counts. First was Washington’s Tom Cheney, who in 1962 threw a complete game…in 16 innings. It took 228 pitches to get the job done. That would make CC Sabathia blush. The second example was Nolan Ryan, which was not surprising. Ryan would routinely flirt with ...