AZ Snake Pit · Jul 11, 2018
Is the 110-pitch outing an endangered species?
This started last night, when Patrick Corbin left the game in the fifth, having thrown 108 pitches to that point. GuruB asked if that was a season high for Arizona: checking, I found it was not quite, as the two Zacks had each thrown 109 pitches. But that in itself was interesting: 92 games into the season, the D-backs have not had a single man throw 110 pitches in a game. The last to do so was Zack Greinke, who threw 111 pitches on September 5 last year. Since then, Arizona have a streak of 105 consecutive games, and counting, with an apparent hard cap on their starting pitchers of 110 pitches.
The decline and fall