OT: LA Dodgers Pitcher Ross Stripling Pulled While Throwing A No-Hitter

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LA Dodgers pitcher Ross Stripling was pulled in his first MLB start while throwing a no-hitter through 7 1/3 and had 100 pitches. The reliever they brought in allowed a 2 run home run to the first batter. Stripping is 2 years removed from Tommy John surgery. To my MGoBaseball minds out there, do you agree with this decision by the new Dodgers manager to try and preserve a young pitcher, or do you think he pulled the plug too early?
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Bluetotheday

April 9th, 2016 at 2:01 AM ^

Make tough decisions. We don't if he would have pushed harder to go for the no-no. Look at this way, the kid is still in the league loving to fight another day, not a bad outcome

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UofM626

April 9th, 2016 at 2:10 AM ^

It's the wrong move! Let the kid pitch. I have had TJ surgery and I coach at a high level, just like the Strasburg they made the wrong choice.

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lilpenny1316

April 9th, 2016 at 2:22 AM ^

So that means the starting pitcher let someone get on base.  If he was starting to lose his control, it totally makes sense to take him out.  The last thing you want is him placing extra strain on his arm right after surgery and causing another severe injury.  Right move IMO, regardless of pitch count.

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bacon

April 9th, 2016 at 4:03 AM ^

Baseball is a little too obsessed with no hitters. It's not like he was pitching a perfect game and it's not like he's an ace.  He's a young player with injury history who did well in his start. He hit 100 pitches in the 8th inning, not the 9th, so he was probably done anyway. Good managers get paid to make tough decisions and this sounds like it was the right call.  Baseball is a marathon and skipping your next start is not ideal either. It's also a team game and you should be able to rely on your teammates to pickup a win like that (and the manager needs to know what he has there too). Either way, it's not that big of a deal.

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LandryHD

April 9th, 2016 at 4:18 AM ^

Giants actually did this to The Freak a few years ago. His pitch count was high so they pulled him. I'm not sure if I agree with it but I agreed with it tonight being a Giants fan!

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expatriate

April 9th, 2016 at 8:00 AM ^

Pitch counts have nothing to do with sabermetrics. Sabermetrics is about using data to predict or make better decisions about the game... pitch counts are basically based on gut feelings. The data is mixed on the issue. Might be blaming the wrong source here.

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madmaxweb

April 9th, 2016 at 10:56 AM ^

Yea sabermetrics will be the death of baseball alright. The last 5 World Series winners didn't need it... Wait, that's right, every winner since 2010 has been well known to use more advanced sabermetrics than the majority of teams in baseball. Not to mention last year the top 3 regular season teams in the Cubs, Pirates, and Cardinals all use advanced sabermetrics. But no, the death of baseball is here, what will we ever do??



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RainbowSprings

April 9th, 2016 at 4:43 AM ^

by Dodgers manager Dave Roberts. Pretty SOP as regards any pitcher this early in the season. Stripling's already 26 y.o., just coming back off TJ surgery. Why risk his resurgent career. He was heading for 120+ pitches to complete the game.

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LV Sports Bettor

April 9th, 2016 at 4:49 PM ^

going to say anything different...............on a side note cool story but there's almost no shot this kid pitches for Dodgers many more times rest of this season. Was total fluke he was even out there for them to begin with as they are missing 6 starters who were considered to be rated ahead of due to injury. He hadn't pithed above double A coming into this game and wasn't someone they were prepared to go with until the last minute. 

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LSAClassOf2000

April 9th, 2016 at 8:38 AM ^

If it's me, I tend to be in the camp of letting pitchers who have a good thing going - no-hitter, shutout, etc... -  try to finish out the game or at least go as long as you believe they feasibly can. At the same time, I get that as a manager you might be a little conservative with a pitcher coming off Tommy John surgery until you get some idea of where he is and where his stuff is in an actual game situation. As someone said above, it's fairly arbitrary to care about no-hitters, and barely a week into the season, it's even more difficult to really care that much. I think the other thing that must cross your mind as a manager is whether or not he's just mowing hitters down or if they are working the count and driving up the pitch count - do you foresee 120 or 150 total pitches, things like that.

I won't condemn the decision, but it's a shame whenever you see a pitcher get pulled even when they are having an excellent game. 

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WhoopinStick

April 9th, 2016 at 10:23 AM ^

Right move. If he was as at 100 pitches already there was virtually no way he was going to be able to finish the game. Same the pitcher for the long haul and manage to win the game.



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SysMark

April 9th, 2016 at 12:33 PM ^

At 100 pitches with eight outs to go.  He's obviously running a lot of long counts and it projects to possibly 140+.  That math says take him out now.

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ChalmersE

April 9th, 2016 at 1:50 PM ^

One thing not noted already is that 10 days ago, Stripling was headed to Triple-A. I'm pretty sure he hadn't pitched a ton of innings coming into the game, and Roberts was probably hoping to get six innings out of him. He went longer in deference to the no-no, but at the first sign of trouble, he was coming out.

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