Scheb walks after working a full count.
1 on, nobody down
George Grande has been a pleasant change in the booth tonight.
Eric Stratton, Rush Chairman. Damn glad to meet ya.
Kc61 (09-01-2017)
Going back to the 1960s and 1970s, there were some great strikeout pitchers then too.
They were just trained differently. They were expected to be workhorses.
The big difference is money. Pitchers get paid so much today that teams don't want to risk overuse and injury.
The ironic thing is that there are probably more injuries now than before.
Banshee (09-01-2017)
Not sure what Chris was looking at, Pensacola and Dayton are all playoff bound.
“I don’t care,” Votto said of passing his friend and former teammate. “He’s in the past. Bye-bye, Jay.”
Scoot triples w/ HR interference by Cutch.
Cutch can't make the catch but takes a HR away from Gennett and it's a triple instead.
“I don’t care,” Votto said of passing his friend and former teammate. “He’s in the past. Bye-bye, Jay.”
Agree. But today kids are pitching competitively, with work loads, very young. I think that has a role in the injuries, too.
The whole game has changed over the years, rather dramatically. The shorter starts, the bullpens today with 100 MPH guys, going with 12-13 pitchers, four man benches.
Very different. Incredible athletes today, guys like Billy Hamilton, Aroldis Chapman. Different, in some ways better, in some ways worse.
A couple of generations ago, the guys who got injured didn't come back. Now we're constantly hearing about the comings and goings.
I'm in a hotel in High Point, NC with crappy internet. Can't stream the game and even RZ won't work. Good to see a 5-2 lead, but why did Luis ony go 4?
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"You only have to bat a thousand in two things; flying and heart transplants. Everything else you can go 4-for-5."
-Beano Cook
But even years ago, you knew about the star players. If Marichal, Gibson, Koufax or Drysdale got hurt, you knew, it was well publicized. Then Seaver, Carleton, etc.
And if you followed a team, like I followed the Reds, you would know the injuries. There was no internet, so the knowledge wasn't as widespread, true.
Of course, with some of those guys, they wouldn't miss a turn anyway. They were workhorses expected to pitch every turn.
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