More Joey Votto: 5 walks in 5 plate appearances, seeing 43 pitches.

Dusty Baker “throwing caution to the winds”. This is crazy to me:

While pitch counts are crude metrics, only 10 teams have allowed a starting pitcher to exceed 120 pitches this season; only two teams have allowed it to occur on multiple occasions.

So close to epic, Kevin Huber.

What it feels like to get hit by a pitch.

That was Robin Ventura’s hilarious excuse for famously charging the mound after being hit by Nolan Ryan, who got Ventura in a headlock and started pounding away. “He threw so hard, it hurt so much, I didn’t know what I was doing, so I just took off after him because of the pain,” Ventura said. “I got about halfway to the mound, came to my senses and said, ‘What am I doing charging Nolan Ryan?’ But I couldn’t turn back then.”

How inevitable is it that college football will expand their 4 team playoff?