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Baseball's magic number: 100

By Tim Kurkjian
ESPN The Magazine

Monday, July 27, 2009

The names and teams aren't important, but here's what happened in July 2008 on a beautiful evening at Nationals Park. The visiting pitching coach went to the mound to talk to his pitcher, who was laboring slightly. "I can't pitch any more," the pitcher told the pitching coach. "Are you hurt?" the pitching coach asked. "No, I just can't pitch any more," the pitcher said. Then he walked off the mound. He had thrown 90 pitches. Welcome to the new age of baseball, an age in which complete gam ...

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