[Sans-Culotte]

I don’t think Sabathia would have gotten two more innings out of that game. He hasn’t pitched seven full innings in a start since June.

The Yankees were leading 11-0.

[Alberta's Child]

It has nothing to do with the score of the game. Sabathia is a fat slob who is almost 40 years old, and they’re managing his innings so he can pitch well in the playoffs.

[Dr. Sivana]

He hasn’t pitched seven full innings in a start since June.

I stopped following MLB since interleague play, the baseball equivalent of shacking up.

Now I have a ten year old son, who has been in Little League, and so I am reading a little more, and even took my son to a Diamondbacks game and will certainly take him to Cactus League next spring.

In my Rip Van Winkle length absence, it seems that Complete Games almost don't exist any more. It's one thing to pull a pitcher for a late inning pinch hitter in a close game, or when a left handed slugger comes up against a right with bases loaded later in the game, but to have a pitcher who can't regularly give you seven innings?! We called those guys long relievers. Sometimes they'd be the fifth starter (Dick Tidrow, Charlie Hough types). I will admit that today's pitchers throw a LOT harder, but so did Nolan Ryan, and he pitched plenty of complete games over an astonishingly long career.