[a little elbow grease]

Give this a thought when you see present day baseball managers using a half dozen and often many more pitchers in one game. Baseball is unrecognizable now. (jmo)

[billyboy15]

The more the players are paid, the more they are are pampered as a way for the clubs to protect their investments.

It has detracted from the game imo.

[Stosh]

Then there’s Harvey Haddix - 12 *perfect* innings, only to lose in the 13th - also with the Pirates, also against the Braves (and also roughly in the same era).

[Alberta's Child]

Baseball has become much more of a situational game for pitchers rather than a long, drawn-out contest. There is a lot of talk about pitchers being “babied” these days, but let’s keep in mind that they are throwing harder than ever and are pushing themselves right up against the physical limitations of the human body.

[JonPreston]

Make baseball great again!

Vernon Law, Lew Burdette, Harvey Haddax, Eddie Mathews, Hank Aaron, Bobby Thomson....

[Rummyfan]

It’s remarkable how many pitches and innings they used to throw back in the old days. Why are today’s pitchers so fragile in comparison? Are they over trained? Does the more variety of pitches take more a toll on the arm? Or do they simply throw much harder?

I was shocked when Boone pulled Paxton in the third inning!

[Rummyfan]

Give this a thought when you see present day baseball managers using a half dozen and often many more pitchers in one game. Baseball is unrecognizable now. (jmo)

Not to mention how that slows the game down.

[OrangeHoof]

From AstrosDaily.com history:

Sept. 9, 1972

Don Wilson ties a club record by tossing 13 innings in a complete-game 5-1 victory in San Francisco. Bob Watson and Roger Metzger end it with home runs in the decisive frame. Metzger finishes with four hits and four RBIs. Imagine how scribes would howl at Leo Durocher these days for keeping Wilson out there for 193 pitches.

[Hebrews 11:6]

There's a famous game in which Spahn and Marichal dueled scorelessly into the 16th, before Willie Mays finally ended the proceedings by homering off Spahnie.