Craig Brown was a bit worried about a long inning from Cole Ragans Saturday.
I’m no sports scientist. In the discourse from earlier this month about the rash of elbow injuries among pitchers and talk about the impact of the pitch clock on those injuries, I found it interesting that there was discussion about load on the arms. In the pitch clock argument, it went that pitchers had less time to “reset” after delivery and their arms weren’t used to such stress in the shorter period of time. I’m dubious on that count, but I do think there’s something about load when it comes to the number of pitches delivered in an inning.