Analyzing Pitch Count Strategy in Major League Baseball Games

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00:00So, listen, we did play over one-and-a-half strikeouts tonight.

00:04He pitched 44 pitches in his final sort of warm-up for this.

00:11I don't know what that, like, does it mean that he'll go 44 here?

00:14Not necessarily, right?

00:16It depends on the flow of this thing.

00:18Like I said, if he gets through the first inning on nine pitches or something,

00:21he'll pitch in the second.

00:22If it takes him 37 pitches in the first, he probably won't pitch in the second.

00:26Right?

00:26So, I sort of get the feeling it's, you know, 35, 45 pitches, which, you know,

00:31and you've got to believe San Diego are going to probably try to, you know,

00:35run the count up to make him work for it.

00:37But he's good to go.

00:39I mean, hell, at the World Series last year, guys,

00:41he was working out in the bullpen throwing at, like, 98 miles an hour.

00:45So, like, they've been very patient and understandably so.

00:49You know, you've got to be cautious with this.