Verlander pitch count game 5

Verlander faced the meat of the A's order in the bottom of the 4th. Drew struck out swinging, Cespedes lined out to Jackson, Smith struck out swinging. It was vintage Velrander, who now had 6 strikeouts and 59 pitches thrown. The Tigers still not working counts, Avila grounded out first pitch swinging for an easy lead off out int he 5th. Infante swiped 2nd base, but Jackson couldn't recreate the events of the 3rd inning, striking out. Hoping against hope Berry would do what he does best, take a few pitches and make Parker work Berry pulled a Delmon Young instead, popping up on the first pitch.

The pop up would have been well into in the stands at Comerica. But the O. Young-itis was contagious. The first 2 A's in the 5th went down on 3 pitches. Moss woke the crowd up with a 2 out single to left, their first hit since the 1st inning. After home plate ump Wally Bell didn't give him a called strike 3, a visibly peeved Verlander struck out Norris swinging.

The Tigers had the middle of the order coming to the plate in the 6th. Cabrera, first pitch swinging, grounded out Was Cabrera pressing, trying to make something big happen on every swing?

The answer has to be a resounding YES. Fielder, also trying to do too much, popped up on an eye high breaking ball. Shockingly, Young singled, the inning remaining alive. Dirks popped up for the 3rd out. At least he worked the count to beforehand. But he also swung at ball The bottom of the 6th started with Martinez talking up the A's having "personalities" as cameras panned the O. With 1 down in the 6th, Verlander had to battle past Crisp, who would ground out on a tough 7 pitch at bat.

Crisp was perturbed, to say the very least. Not wanting to face Cespedes with a runner on base, Verlander struck out Drew on 3 pitches, the 8th K of the evening. Peralta led off the 7th with a single off the glove of a diving Donaldson. Amazingly, on what was supposed to be a hit and run with Avila, Peralta stole 2nd base, the Tigers' 3rd swipe of the night. You knew it was the Tigers' night when the lead-footed Peralta steals a base. Avila struck out on a pitch for the 1st out.

But Infante, having a solid post season, singled to right, just clearing a leaping Cliff Pennington. Being the leap froze Peralta for a second and Gene Lamont knowing patience is the better part of valor and that Peralta is sloooow , the runner was held at 3rd. A's manager Bob Melvin had Ryan Cook warming up as the inning was taking a turn for the worse.

Jackson due to bat, Melvin made to call for Cook, hoping for a strikeout. Jackson foiled the strategy, ripping a line shot RBI single past again a leaping Pennington. Peralta scored the Tigers' 3rd run, Infante hook sliding into 3rd.

Cook walked Berry on 4 pitches, bringing up the Triple Crown winner with 1 out and the bases loaded. Cook quickly got ahead of Cabrera , then made a huge mistake, plunking him on the elbow with a fastball. Unable to get an out, Cook was yanked with Fielder due to bat.

Lefty Jerry Blevins was called on to face the big man. Once again Crisp was burned on a bloop. Fooled by Fielder's big swing and already playing in Petaluma, Crisp took a step back before breaking in, which was just enough to allow the Texas Leaguer to drop. The runners moved station to station, Jackson crossing the plate, Tiger now up Blevins was left in the game to face Young. His line drive off the glove of Drew was scored E-6, scoring Berry for the 4th run of the inning and 6th of the game.

A decade ago we were just getting into pitch counts as being all the rage. But popular culture sometimes trails behind the times. So many still think in those terms. Since then the thinking has changed a bit. We've learned, too, that a team can do everything right and still see pitchers felled by elbow or shoulder issues. There's no magic key to unlocking the health of a pitcher. Pitchers are unique individuals. Some may not have the body or mechanics to go as deep as others.

Some are going to be uberpitchers who are throwbacks to the past, going deep in games, high in counts, without showing any issues. Nolan Ryan was one of those.

Justin Verlander appears to be one too. Last year three pitchers tossed games of or more pitches. Verlander was the only one to do it more than once, with one of those coming in just the third game of the year.

Neither time led to a drop in quality, and Verlander went on to have one of the best seasons of his career. In my research, I discovered a study that involved Dr. Glenn Fleisig, Dr.

James Andrews, and several more , that concluded in a simulated setting :. It is possible that if a pitcher remained in a fatigued state for a longer period of time, additional changes in pitching mechanics may occur and the risk of injury may increase. This study supports the popular notion that high pitching loads can dampen future performance; however, because the effect is small, pitch-count benchmarks have limited use for maintaining performance and possibly preventing injury.

And then you have this study out of the University of Waterloo that also found little correlation between pitch counts and injures. He added: " If we can't predict injuries based off of these metrics, how are we going to use them to prevent injuries?

Verlander is not normal. Beside above, who's pitching for the Astros Game 7? Will Harris will play the "put out the fire" guy. Roberto Osuna is closer and could be available for two innings.

They had to pitch for either five years or amass or more innings as Astros. Don Wilson. Ken Forsch. Mike Scott. Shane Reynolds.

Wins: Joe Niekro. Larry Dierker. Wandy Rodriguez. Darryl Kile. In , Verlander became the sixth pitcher in MLB history to throw three career no-hitters and struck out his 3,th batter, becoming the 18th pitcher in major league history to do so. Justin Verlander Earned run average 3. Wade Miley, who'd previously filled the role of fourth starter , was left off the roster after a dreadful September.

Starting pitchers [edit] Starting pitchers commonly throw or more pitches in a game and require several days to recover from the effort.