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Originally Posted by Questdog
They need to do away with the warm up pitches a reliever gets from the mound. Such a bore to slog through an inning with 2 or 3 pitcher changes.......
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I would guess that the 1974 Los Angeles Dodgers would disagree with you...
1974 World Series Game 5 - The A's staked Vida Blue to a 2–0 lead with single runs in the first and second innings on a sacrifice fly by Sal Bando and a solo homer by Ray Fosse. The Dodgers tied it in the sixth with two runs on a sacrifice fly by Jimmy Wynn and an RBI single by Steve Garvey.
Joe Rudi got what would turn out to be the game-winning RBI when he tagged Dodger ace reliever Mike Marshall with a solo homer in the seventh. On a cool, damp night in Oakland,
Marshall, who always pitched in short sleeves, disdained his allowance of eight warm up pitches after coming in from the bull pen. Rudi hit his first pitch out. In the Dodgers half of the eighth, Bill Buckner led off with a base hit to center that got past center fielder Bill North. Buckner had an easy double, but tried to stretch it to a triple and Reggie Jackson, backing up North, fired a perfect throw to Dick Green, who relayed to Sal Bando at third to nail Buckner and squelch the last Dodger threat. In his youthful exuberance, Buckner broke the unwritten baseball rule to never make the first or third out at third base. It was even more critical given that he was the potential tying run. Rollie Fingers got his third save and was named series MVP.
Link to the Home Run -
https://youtu.be/kNDX5fFhCd0?t=7207