@prollytoking @ViatorLion10@roryoc510 @AdrianEspinozaE @espn@AdamSchefter Again, increments of 20 please since these magic numbers cannot be argued against how the players arm actually fucking feels.
@prollytoking @ViatorLion10@roryoc510 @AdrianEspinozaE @espn@AdamSchefter Well then please enlighten me on what the difference is between 60 and 80 pitches for Clayton Kershaw. Since you do understand the difference. Then if you could provide the difference in 20 pitch increments going up from there please
@GoBlue369@ViatorLion10@roryoc510 @AdrianEspinozaE @espn@AdamSchefter So there’s no way he could feel differently behind closed doors? I don’t need to have ever stepped on a diamond to have an opinion on this so it really doesn’t matter, and you either believe he should have went for the 24th perfect game in 220,000 some odd games pitched, or quit
@ViatorLion10@AceMasterLOCXl2@roryoc510 @AdrianEspinozaE @espn@AdamSchefter Please tell me how you seem to know a) that I haven’t played baseball and b) Johan Santana exceeding his pitch count ruined his career and couldn’t possibly be anything other than going over these magic numbers?
@ViatorLion10@roryoc510 @AdrianEspinozaE @espn@AdamSchefter What makes you understand the magical number of 80 pitches so well? Why not keep him at 60 if the difference in 20 pitches is so obvious on the health of Clayton Kershaws arm, which you seem to know can only throw exactly 80 pitches. You must have actually pitched a baseball!
@ViatorLion10@AceMasterLOCXl2@roryoc510 @AdrianEspinozaE @espn@AdamSchefter So you think throwing 134 pitches for a no hitter is the same as trying to throw the 24th perfect game while still possibly staying under 100 pitches? That’s the comparison you make?
@CalicoJoeMLB@JeffPassan There have only been 23. It is never a goal. It is a joyous, miraculous gem that you stumble on once every few years at best. For it to happen to this generation’s greatest pitcher and an active HOFer who has accomplished everything else in the sport, you have to allow history
If it's a no-hitter, whatever. Yank him. Clayton Kershaw has thrown one.
But there have been more than 220,000 games in MLB history. There have been 23 perfect games.
Everything -- especially a pitch count of 80 -- is lining up to at least let Kershaw try. You cannot pull him.
@ViatorLion10@roryoc510 @AdrianEspinozaE @espn@AdamSchefter He threw 80 thru 7 innings and you think I’m advocating for him to throw half of that in the last two? Noo I’m saying give him a shot because if I had an opportunity to throw the 24th perfect game in history they are gonna drag me off the mound.