NOLAN Ryan faced 58 Red Sox batters on June 14, 1974, striking out 19 and walking 10 in a 13-inning no-decision. He threw 278 pitches, and struck out leadoff man Cecil Cooper six times.

Jul 13, 2024 · 12:57 AM UTC

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And his opponent, Luis Tiant, was still on the mound when the Angels walked it off in the bottom of the 15th. Probably didn't throw as many pitches as Ryan because the 10 walks drove up the latter's pitch count, but still...14.1 innings, complete game loss. That's insane.
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Not to mention Luis Tiant the Red Sox Pitcher that night pitched the entire game 14 and 1/3 innings. Unbelievable. It’s a shame Tiant not in the HOF.
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“He threw 278 pitches” Full Stop That’s “June” for this generation
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And now starters only typically go around 80 pitches…I’m usually pretty stunned when they go over 100!!!
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.......and then Nolan Ryan went to the rodeo that night and wrestled four bulls to the ground.
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And pitched 5 days later
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He butchered a bull later in the evening to have a fresh steak and installed an HVAC system. I don't if that's true, but it sounds right.
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In the same game Tiant pitched 14 innings and only walked 4.
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And nowadays 1 in 3 pitchers will have Tommy John surgery in their 20s despite throwing less and less 🤔 seems like old school 4 man rotation and complete games did better. That said Ryan was the ultimate workhorse with elite skills. He’s the pitching equivalent of Secretariat
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He was built like that.
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One of the first mlb players in his era that was committed to year around physical fitness.
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Can you imagine being a lead off hitter and striking out six times in one night?
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GOAT ! 🇺🇸
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And now a pitcher is a hero for going 5 innings and 98 pitches. Baseball sucks now
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It was the socks. Game went to hell when they abandoned stirrups.
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Beast.
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Killed and shortened his career though. Would still be pitching if he had stopped at 80 pitches.
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His 7 no hitters is so under rated - man what a legend
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And never had arm troubles. Likely has the strongest legs MLB has ever seen. As a kid I was at his 1973 no-hitter in Detroit. The Tigers never had a chance.
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This week a pitcher was pulled after throwing around 85 pitches and had not given up a hit through 7 innings. Ridiculous.
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I listened to Dick Enberg call that game on the radio
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Back when starting pitchers were expected to go the distance. And, he never blew his arm out until the very end
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2nd greatest all time...
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Whatever these medical professionals are doing to these athletes obviously is not working. Somehow despite perfect diets and advanced medicine and workouts and all that these athletes are more fragile then they ever have been.
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Wow 278. Poor Cooper. Poor catcher!
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Oh but he was overused causing him to blow out his arm (at around 50 years old). These morons today that believe in and stress pitch counts are comical. To think they actually influence people is even more pathetic
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Fake news, it was only 235 pitches. 😄
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A starter in todays game would have their arm literally fall off and possibly die if they tried to do that.
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Serious question: do today’s pitchers finish their pitches like this? To me, they do not, but I do not see many still shots like this either.
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So much for the stupid pitch count philosophy! It was not uncommon for a starter to go into extra innings if he was still effective, the way it should be.
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At least Cooper didnt get 6 hits off of Nolan like Robin Vnetura JS
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278 pitches early in his career & he never threw his arm out.
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When men were men
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I still don't get how he cld consistently throw a ton of pitches, but not have the injuries they have now. Is the type of pitches that pitchers are throwing that are causing the injuries? All this trying to get the hardest breaks to the ball.
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And cooper was a top 10 hitter in the league at that time I’m sure. Good player
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Where's the idiot that's gonna say today's players are bigger,stronger, faster
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