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[FaTaL]

Logan Webb was dealing but I know whoever comes in to close this game finna let in at least a run for the Giants

 

[FaTaL]

 

[yseJ]

 

[khross415]

Doval has been way to fukking shakey to start the season. I would put him back in the 6-8 inning role

 

[Regular_P]

If it leads to injury, it could. He has recently proven to be injury prone, is just coming off an arm injury, and it's near freezing in Minnesota. I don't even think this qualifies as a decision you can blame on analytics. It's about his health, period. If he had a cap of 80 pitches, like all pitchers do at some point when rehabbing or getting stretched out or starting their spring training, them it would be foolish to ignore that to chase a perfect game. Impossible to say one way or the other whether it would put him at greater risk.

Pitchers get babied more than ever and we also have more injuries than ever. Two more innings was not going to make or break Kershaw's season. It's nonsense to suggest otherwise when they just as easily could have skipped his next start of it was such a dire concern.

 

[Regular_P]

wasnt he taken #1 overall to play 3B? or is he just a flat footed 1B now?

He was always a 1B but these bozos in Detroit thought he could easily transition to third and floated that out there.

 

[Heavy_Handz]

Casual babble.....

OK gatekeeper of all things baseball

 

[HHR]

Pitchers get babied more than ever and we also have more injuries than ever. Two more innings was not going to make or break Kershaw's season. It's nonsense to suggest otherwise when they just as easily could have skipped his next start of it was such a dire concern.

It's not about total pitches over a 2 week span lol

 

[Regular_P]

It's not about total pitches over a 2 week span lol

I'm puzzled as to why you're continuing to be obtuse about this. There is no correlation between pitch counts and injury. It's especially odd considering Kershaw was at 80 pitches through a stress free seven innings; not 140.

 

[King Poetic]

Only 5 games in and the marlins, orioles and rangers seasons all ready over

 

[Patrick Kane]

Back to back HRs for Vladdy

Crushed that last one

 

[tremonthustler1]

I'm puzzled as to why you're continuing to be obtuse about this. There is no correlation between pitch counts and injury. It's especially odd considering Kershaw was at 80 pitches through a stress free seven innings; not 140.

There's things about pitch count and innings limits that i'll never understand because all innings ain't equal and the stress level for every pitch is different.

I woulda let him start the inning and just go batter to batter, but going into the season, we had to know that pitchers were gonna get held back early.

 

[MenacingMonk]

Dave pulling Kersh with 0 hits after 80 pitches.

 

[Regular_P]

There's things about pitch count and innings limits that i'll never understand because all innings ain't equal and the stress level for every pitch is different.

I woulda let him start the inning and just go batter to batter, but going into the season, we had to know that pitchers were gonna get held back early.

Which would have been perfectly understandable. To have 13 strikeouts through seven innings with only 80 pitches is remarkably efficient. He was in complete command out there. If he gave up a hit or walked somebody, go from there.

 

[Dipsey Doo]

Roberts consulted with Kershaw after the sixth, and the three-time National League Cy Young Award winner told him his preference: one more inning with an 85-pitch limit.

"I would have loved to have stayed, but bigger things, man, bigger things,'' Kershaw said.

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"Blame it on the lockout. Blame it on me not picking up a baseball until January,'' said Kershaw, who threw a no-hitter against Colorado on June 18, 2014. "My slider was horrible the last two innings. It didn't have the bite. It was time.''

Dodgers vs. Twins - Game Recap - April 13, 2022 - ESPN

It was Kershaw's call to be pulled. He understands the bigger picture for his team. Non-fans and casuals care more about an individual accomplishment than Kershaw. Can anyone without looking name the last five pitchers that threw a perfect game.