Earlier in this blog’s run, I posted a game (#134) in which Jose Rosado made 123 pitches for the Royals in 1998 and noted that under the circumstances this would never happen in today’s game. Perhaps Tony Muser was just interesting in slagging arms, as here’s a similar case – future Indian Chad Durbin, 23, making a whopping 132 pitches in pursuit of a shutout. When Russell Branyan doubled with two outs in the ninth to push across Cleveland’s first tally, Muser finally pulled the plug, summoning Ricky Bottalico to face Alex Ramirez and make two pitches to get the final out. Durbin stuck out six and walked five, so this wasn’t exactly a masterpiece.
His opposite number, Bartolo Colon, had a rougher time of it, walking the first four Royals and then yielding two more runs on the first outs he recorded. In the fourth he was taken deep back-to-back by Joe Randa and Carlos Beltran, and when he followed that up with a sixth walk, he got the hook after eighty pitches. As always with 2000 Indians scoresheets, the names of pitchers that follow are fun – Andrew Lorraine worked 2 1/3, yielding another Beltran dinger, then a familiar name in Paul Shuey for an inning, followed by Jamie Brewington.
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