Roberts made the tough decision to pull Hill after seven ideal innings in the Los Angeles Dodgers’ 5-0 victory over the Miami Marlins. He allowed a leadoff single to Urena, but got a double play and a flyout to end the inning.
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Last month, Bochy was pacing around the dugout as San Francisco’s Matt Moore closed in on a no-hitter. He could have thrown 120 pitches.
“We didn’t put any pressure on him”, Seager told the media in the clubhouse following the game. That’s the kind of pitchers they are.
“There’s a lot of fans in Los Angeles that are very upset with me, I’m sure”, Roberts said without even seeing the firestorm on social media. There’s no magic number where the pitch reaches a risk apex – it’s a neverending upward trend – but when looking at a range of pitches, such as 90 to 120 for Hill who has been anything but a paragon of health over his career, it’s reasonable to conclude that the risk of exacerbating a recent injury outweighs the feat of throwing the 22nd ideal game in the modern era, especially for the team in the middle of a pennant chase. “But there’s part of you that says you don’t want to be in that situation”. That’s why he felt more like a losing manager on after the game than a manager closing in on a division championship.
“If it’s the example of Rodriguez, Rodriguez is going back out for the ninth inning regardless”, Farrell said Sunday before Boston’s game against the Toronto Blue Jays, via MassLive.com.
“I knew he was looking something soft, and I threw the two-seam [fastball] and he hit the ball”, Urena said. You look at it and you move on. Last night, Roberts cited the ailment as the reason for his decision. “It’s about amassing wins, not amassing no-hitters”.
Hill’s pitch count was at 89, but he had missed significant time with a blister issue in his pitching hand and was making only his third start since July 17.
Only five of the 15 teams in the American League are under.500, so there’s quite a race on for the postseason spots.
The Baltimore Orioles are only two games behind after an 11-3 thrashing of the Detroit Tigers and the New York Yankees are one further back following their 5-1 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays. NY dropped one-half game behind the Cardinals for the second NL wild-card spot.
The Chicago Cubs have a chance to wrap up the NL Central in St. Louis at the home of the rival Cardinals.
Marlins: Pitchers Wei-Yin Chen and Bryan Morris are to throw simulated games Sunday in attempts to determine if they will return during the final three weeks of the season.
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“That was an incredible play and when you see a no-hitter or flawless game, you never know what’s going to happen”, Mattingly said. He threw six innings in his first, was scratched from the second, and then threw six scoreless in his next start before the flawless game effort.
