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Some examples of high pitch count games include a 26-inning game on May 1, 1920 where Leon Cadore of Brooklyn and Joe Oeschger of Boston pitched an estimated 345 and 319 pitches; [8] also, Nolan Ryan threw 164 in a 1989 game, aged 42. [17] Stats LLC began tracking pitch counts in 1988, and MLB keeps official data since 1999.
Max Fried is the leader among active players, with four. [2] The 1988 season had the most Madduxes with 25, while the COVID-pandemic-shortened 2020 season had none. [ 3 ] Roy Halladay is the only player to have thrown an extra-inning Maddux, throwing 99 pitches in 10 innings on September 6, 2003.
Often, a starting pitcher is subject to a pitch count, meaning the manager will remove him from the game once he has thrown a specific number of pitches. The most common pitch count for a modern pitcher is about 100, and it is now rare for a starting pitcher to throw more than 125 pitches in a game. Pitch count limits are especially common for ...
Shelby ace Nic Eyster is 7-2 on the season and has worked 55 ⅔ innings and thrown 821 pitches. Four times he has thrown complete games and two others he went into the sixth inning and all of ...
Pitchers could no longer throw 400 innings in a season, as the home run meant a run could be scored at any time. The league leader in innings pitched often threw somewhat more than 300 innings. Occasionally, innings pitched would spike, as in the early 1970s, when Wilbur Wood pitched 376 + 2 ⁄ 3 innings in 1972 and then 359 + 1 ⁄ 3 innings ...
Per research from Baseball Prospectus’ Pitch Info unit, the average MLB starter throws 4.23 different pitches at least 5% of the time. That average hasn’t changed much over the past decade ...
Joe Ross had allowed one run through 5 ⅓ innings and had thrown just 79 pitches when Brewers manager Pat Murphy pulled him Monday night. ... outs with an average exit velocity of 73.1 mph on the ...
In 31 starts, Maddux threw nine innings with 100 or fewer pitches. Ten of those starts were under 90 pitches, including a 78-pitch complete game in July 1997, [60] the most efficient start by any pitcher since 1979. In recognition of this, the statistic describing a complete game shut-out thrown in less than 100 pitches was named after him ...