A high school game in Japan went 50 innings that spanned four days. Both starting pitchers went the distance! One pitcher had 709 pitches and the other a measly 689. I'm sure their arms are noodles now. This is really hard to believe.
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-bi...171615112.html
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Tommy John-san.
Mitri (09-02-2014)
The right fielder is.....a little close, but the pitcher certainly seems to my eye to be using effort in that delivery. Not healthy.
"Even a bad day at the ballpark beats the snot out of most other good days. I'll take my scorecard and pencil and beer and hot dog and rage at the dips and cheer at the highs, but I'm not ever going to stop loving this game and this team and nobody will ever take that away from me." Roy Tucker October 2010
In the fall of 1992 I was a freshman at Wilmington College. My baseball coach was none other than former Reds pitcher Brooks Lawrence. It was early October during a fall practice and I was brought in as a P/CF. Brooks pulled me aside and said he wanted me to throw batting practice and wanted me to show him what I had.....that cool fall evening (as a frosh trying to impress the coach) I pitched for 2 hours batter after batter after batter. Guessing close to 300 pitches. I could barely do anything by the end. No clue why he never asked me how I was or why he didn't have one of the other 6-8 guys throw.
Needless to say my pitching career was soon to be over. Very frustrating because I had always had the "rubber" arm mixed with the crafty lefty label. My arm never hurt in high school.
I should've known not to listen to a guy whose elbow sagged about 5 inches from where it should've been.
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