Thursday, August 11, 2011

Baseball Situation: You are a manager and one of your starters is throwing a perfect game....?

There is no way that as a manager I'm taking a kid out of a game that he's pitching a no hitter or a perfect game regardless. Until he gives up that first base hit, he's in there. I'm old school and I get so tired of hearing about pitch counts etc. I might give him extra days to recover but when something that rare comes along you have to give them a chance to do something historical. And I feel the same about a shutout. Until a pitcher gives up that run or tells me he cannot go on, he will get a chance to pitch it. Nolan Ryan once threw a shutout and threw like 175 pitches to do it and pitched for 27 years. Could you imagine a manager in 1968 going out to the mound and taking Bob Gibson out in the 8th inning of a shutout? He would have told you to go back down to that dugout and leave him alone.

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