Saturday, June 16, 2018

Baseball tournaments

Playoffs in baseball have one factor different from other sports: the fact that pitchers have to have a certain amount of rest causes managers to have to gamble one way or the other. "If I put my best pitcher out there today, he won't be available for the bigger game tomorrow. But if I don't use him today, we may not get to tomorrow." That is a strategic decision that most other sports do not face.

Of course, sometimes managers have just ignored the problem. In the 1905 World Series, Christy Mathewson pitched three complete game shutouts in six days, allowing a total of only 14 hits in the three games.

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