Tanner Roark threw 100+ pitches in four consecutive starts heading into last night’s outing, and he’d gone up to 121 once previously in his career, in a 15 K start against the Minnesota Twins last season, but in the series open with Arizona’s Diamondbacks, Dusty Baker took the right-hander up to 125 pitches over seven innings.
Roark was up to 33 pitches after one, and 52 after two, and Baker sent him back out for the sixth at 100 pitches even and left him out to face four batters in a 25-pitch frame in which he worked around a one-out walk.