Comments on: Starting Without Any (or Less) Rest

By: Raphy

Raphy — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:34:34 +0000

If I had to guess about Santorini, I would say that it was strategy. Houston platooned at a couple of positions. When Santorini was put in as the starter, Houston put in their lefty lineup to face the right hander. Preston Gomez then put Dave Roberts, a lefty who was also scheduled to start that day. Houston then had to burn their bench replacing their lefties with right handed batters.

Can anyone confirm that this is what happened?

By: whiz

whiz — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:35:34 +0000

The pitcher's record for the 102 games with 0 or less DR was 30-39 -- not so good. However, the team they pitched for was 50-51-1 in those games.

For the five who pitched in both games of a DH, only Wood had a bad performance in the second game. Loes and Carroll did the best, pitching 9 innings and allowing only one run (Carroll's was unearned).
Pena and Carroll got a save in the first game, Loes a BS. Santorini started both games, but only pitched to one batter in the first game (a ground out) -- why was he replaced, then tabbed to start the second game?

By: mmayes

mmayes — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:46:45 +0000

The Tony Cloninger game is interesting. Shuts out the Padres a day after he starts and can't get any of the 1st 5 Padres out. What a difference a day makes!

By: Johnny Twisto

Johnny Twisto — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 03:49:57 +0000

Six pitchers have started on 0 days' rest twice since 1957. Of those, the most impressive performance is probably by Joe Nuxhall in '58, with a CG win the day after going 2.2 IP to get an extra-innings relief win. It would be interesting to see how many of these starts are following a brief relief appearance or aborted start of less than an inning, and how many follow on the heels of a multiple-inning appearance. I don't think there's any easy to find that except by checking every single game log. I only checked them for the guys who had the multiple no-rest starts.