[ScottinVA]

Also during an era in which a starter regularly logged 20+ complete games in a season. Nowadays, they rarely go past the fifth inning, yet their careers aren’t being lengthened by shortening their time in the game.

[tom h]

Gibson was a stud, a master at the game, and played with an intensity that is probably not matched today. His stats for 1969 are an example. His record was 20-13. He started 35 games and he completed 28 of those games too. That means Gibson threw a complete game in 8 games that he lost!

He pitched 314 innings for those 35 starts, meaning he pitched an average of 8.9 innings a start! Assuming a few of those games were extra innings, that meant he lasted until at least two outs in the 8th inning nearly every time he started!

Those are incredible figures, especially considering that today the girly-man coaches are pulling the girly-man hurlers in the 7th inning even with a big lead.