How many pitches did McCune throw?

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As John Smoltz kept saying over and over again, there should be no pitch count!

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why he said that?

hmm i gotcha

well i guess i kinda agree with a certain # but IMO there's gotta be a point when you should the pull pull the pitcher, keep him healthy and not to hurt himself

but i was never close to a big leaguer

not sure on the pitch count but he had some short innings, including a 4 pitch inning.

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They did.......and he was complete garbage the rest of the year.

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it's more accurate to say he wasn't very effective the rest of the year. it is also accurate to say he wasn't particularly effective before those 14 innings against BC.

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the need to stretch these guys out

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Or as Smoke would say, "elongate them"

To me the number of pitches isn't all that important, but how he looked out there. He did not look to be laboring at any time out there and still had some good life on his stuff in the 9th inning. And he really didn't have what pitchers call "stressful innings". I think he may have only ha one or two innings where there was more than one runner on base.