The Cubs should pray Big Z's arm holds up over the long haul, given his usage by age 26.
Here are the pitchers whose careers started within the last 25 years, whose starts comprised at least 80% of the games they appeared in, ranked by innings pitched by age 26 (Z turned 26 this June).
Bob, came upon this in another forum. Does it sound right to you? vr, Xei
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Ive heard of this situation but have never seen it actually happen in play.
Lets say the bases are loaded with nobody out. The batter hits what looks like it will land in the gap in Right Center. All runners have gotten a jump off the pitch and have taken off.
However, what they dont realise is that the Center Fielder has come in to make a very nice catch.
The runner from 3rd crosses the plate, not realising that the Fielder has caught the ball. The runner from first is gunned out, and the first baseman throws to the second baseman to get the runner at second out.
3 outs, inning over? Not quite.
Unless the defensive team throws to 3rd base to appeal the run, the run counts. No appeal, no call.
If the defensive team does this, they can still take off the run. This would be considered a "Fourth Out".
thoughts?
Here are the pitchers whose careers started within the last 25 years, whose starts comprised at least 80% of the games they appeared in, ranked by innings pitched by age 26 (Z turned 26 this June).
Cnt Player *IP* G GS CG
1 Gooden 1713.2 238 236 57
2 Valenzuela 1595.2 209 209 85
3 Saberhagen 1464 224 198 57
4 Maddux 1442 212 208 42
5 Sabathia 1346.1 211 211 14
6 A.Fernandez 1346.1 199 197 27
7 Witt 1346.1 215 184 46
8 Gubicza 1313.1 199 187 33
9 Clemens 1284.2 175 174 58
10 J.Vazquez 1229.1 192 191 16
11 Buehrle 1224 197 172 18
12 Smoltz 1223.1 181 181 28
13 Avery 1222.1 203 201 14
14 Abbott 1221.1 181 181 26
15 Garland 1220.1 214 191 6
16 Zambrano1145 193 172 7
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Ive heard of this situation but have never seen it actually happen in play.
Lets say the bases are loaded with nobody out. The batter hits what looks like it will land in the gap in Right Center. All runners have gotten a jump off the pitch and have taken off.
However, what they dont realise is that the Center Fielder has come in to make a very nice catch.
The runner from 3rd crosses the plate, not realising that the Fielder has caught the ball. The runner from first is gunned out, and the first baseman throws to the second baseman to get the runner at second out.
3 outs, inning over? Not quite.
Unless the defensive team throws to 3rd base to appeal the run, the run counts. No appeal, no call.
If the defensive team does this, they can still take off the run. This would be considered a "Fourth Out".
thoughts?
That is correct.
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