Charlie Morton, a starting pitcher for the Atlanta Braves, is ending his 14th big league season, so he’s been around long enough to experience how pitching in Major League Baseball has become the untamed beast it is today.
He’s made 306 starts, 15 in the postseason, barely getting through five innings in Tuesday’s Game 3 start in the National League Championship Series.
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Morton gave way to four Braves relievers, as the Dodgers came from behind in the eighth inning to win, 6-5. Los Angeles used nine pitchers on the day, and went through 40 pitchers overall in the five games since Game 4 of its NL Division Series victory over the San Francisco Giants, which came down to the last pitch.