Blake Snell, who has never gone eight innings, totally fine with being pulled after 7IP, 0H, 104 pitches
The gutless baby was even whimpering "It's going to be a lot of pitches" on the bench between innings, because he valued his fear of throwing fewer than 50% of the pitches Nolan Ryan once did* over his chance to make history, not to mention his team needing him to help
win the ****ing game, which was scoreless at the time.
*—to be fair, that 235-pitch game damaged Ryan's arm so much that Nolan was only able to pitch for another
20 seasons. So caution is clearly merited.
To be even more fair, modern pitchers throw really hard, whereas Ryan…er, never mind. (19Ks in 13 innings. Cecil Cooper goes 0-for-8, 6Ks. WTF even is six whiffs? A Palladium Sombrero?)
Reports that Snell had crawled under the bench, huddled in a fetal position as he sucked his thumb, could not be confirmed, however.
(Mostly because I just made that part up. But even so.)