Pitch Count

[zepfan]

Time: 33.80 seconds

B. Saberhagen

[shappy]

Time: 35.67 seconds

roger clemens

[Red Stripe]

Time: 54.31 seconds

Roger Clemens

[dooz]

Time: 1 minutes, 12.35 seconds

Roger Clemens

[Dr. Duran Duran]

Anyone know what the actual correct answer is? I'm having trouble contacting andy to find the answer he had in mind.

[Ramzavail]

I think its Livan, my answer, I think he did it in 2004.

[Another Blown Save]

Wow, how did I miss this question

If I'm not mistaken, the answer is Mr. Tim Wakefield who pitched 169 pitches against Milwaukee in 1997

[deerayfan072]

Wow, how did I miss this question

If I'm not mistaken, the answer is Mr. Tim Wakefield who pitched 169 pitches against Milwaukee in 1997

would make sense those knuckleballers can throw a lot.

[Ramzavail]

I still think its Livan.

[Another Blown Save]

I found the article written by Jerry Crasnick on April 13 2006 about pitch counts. I'm not going to post the whole article, but in the article...

• During the 1988 season, major league pitchers surpassed 120 pitches in a game a total of 599 times. Last year they did it 135 times. The number of 140-pitch games in a season declined from 65 in 1988 to a mere two last year.

• There were a total of 11 starts of 160 pitches or more during the 1988-89 seasons. But there hasn't been one since 1997, when Boston's Tim Wakefield knuckleballed his way to a 169-pitch outing against Milwaukee.

• After Ron Villone of Cincinnati threw 150 pitches against St. Louis in 2000, there was a five-year gap before Washington's Livan Hernandez duplicated the feat last summer.

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