karen lotz;924644 wrote:How many pitches tonight? I think Verlander threw 56 in his bullpen session and that's about average for most starters on there throw days between starts.

karen lotz;924644 wrote:How many pitches tonight? I think Verlander threw 56 in his bullpen session and that's about average for most starters on their throw days between starts.

thavoice;925136 wrote:I think if the Tigers had lost because of a mid game collapse by their pitching that Leyland would be taking a T O N of heat for this.

Yeah, it looks OK now because he can start game 1 but man, that is a an awful risky thing to do. You have your best pitcher so why not keep him available to pitch in a deciding game? Especially with a BP session scheduled for that day.

Heretic;925142 wrote:Of course, on the other hand, what wound up being the deciding run in a one-run game was given up by Sabathia because they put him in for an inning after throwing fewer pitches on the same day Verlander last pitched. So you could use that to say that giving Verlander action would have been a bad idea in HYPOTHETICAL LAND.

thavoice;925154 wrote:It really is a crapshoot. You have no idea how many runs would have been given up if Sabbathia was NOT pitching in taht inning.

I would like to see some compilation of numbers over the years of starters who come in and throw in relief in the postseason. I just dont know enough of the history, numberswise, if it is a good idea or not.

On one hand you have to think that your BP has been good enough to get you into the postseaason so why not let the game play out like normal and only throw a starter if it went extra's.

Am I right in what I had heard that the Spankmee's pitcher left with a tight forearm and left before he probably would have? That could have forced the hand too of Girardi.

Heretic;925160 wrote:That's what they said on TV, that Nova had a tight forearm. It could have been an actual tight forearm, or it could have been an "he's a rookie in a big game, so we'll make an excuse for him getting hit pretty good and being a ticking bomb out there".

Tiger2003;925211 wrote:Hopefully the Philly Cheesesteak I had for lunch today does the trick! Go Fightin Phils!

karen lotz;925176 wrote:I'm guessing he was tightening up because the Tigers were Fistering him, bad pun intended.

Heretic;925258 wrote:That pun was so bad that it went full circle and earned a rep.

Heretic;925257 wrote:I had a (microwavable frozen Stoffer's) Philly Cheese"steak" for lunch today simply to send as much negative karma Chris Carpenter's way as possible.