Dodgers starting pitcher Trevor Bauer delivers against the San Francisco Giants on May 21.
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Trevor Bauer prides himself on being a workhorse, a pitcher who goes deep into games and is so old-school he would prefer to start every four days instead of five, so it should come as no surprise that the right-hander is determined to push pitch limits of what the Dodgers might be comfortable with.
Bauer threw 126 pitches, more than any starter in the big leagues this season, in last Friday’s game at San Francisco and another 37 pitches in the first inning Wednesday night, the start of a six-inning, two-run, four-hit, 100-pitch effort in a 5-2 loss at Houston.
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts thought it prudent to pull Bauer with a 2-1 deficit to the Astros, even though Bauer needed only 63 pitches to navigate the final five innings. Bauer thought he could continue.
“I felt I could have gone out for the seventh, honestly,” Bauer said. “I felt great. I think after the first inning, if you just watched the quality of the innings, the pitches, the stuff, it was really good, and 100 pitches is just an arbitrary number.
“I’ll pitch deep into the game as long as I’m allowed to. I would have liked to have gone seven or eight or nine or just kept pitching. I felt good. Obviously, that’s not my decision to make.”
Roberts said he “absolutely” thought Bauer could have kept going, but with the Dodgers trailing by a run and the team employing a four-man rotation since May 1, when Dustin May suffered a season-ending elbow injury, he preferred Bauer save some bullets for his next start.
“I just don’t think it makes sense all of the time to push any of our starters,” Roberts said after reliever Nate Jones gave up three runs in the seventh inning of the loss in Minute Maid Park. “Could he have [continued] or can other guys at different times in different games? Absolutely.
“That part of the lineup, I just felt he gave us what he needed to give us tonight. He’s gonna be on regular rest on Monday [against St. Louis], and it just didn’t work out, but as far as Trevor, I had no question he could have kept going.”
Bauer didn’t make any drastic changes to his between-starts routine after his 126-pitch effort. He thought he recovered well and said he felt “normal or slightly better than normal” Wednesday night.
“I know everyone is crazy about this pitch count, like, ‘Oh, 126 is a lot,’ but like I told you guys last time, I didn’t empty the tank, I wasn’t done,” Bauer said. “I felt fine tonight.
“I just got in a little funk in the first inning where I was a little off mechanically and locked it in from there. We can talk about pitch count all we want, but it’s a non-factor for me.”
Does Bauer feel like he has to prove to his new bosses that he can go deeper into games consistently, perhaps even deeper than conventional wisdom might dictate?
“I don’t think I have to prove anything to anyone — that’s not what I’m here to do,” Bauer said. “I’m here to win baseball games. I’m not the manager, I’m not the pitching coach. I don’t make those decisions. My job is to go out there and pitch as long as they’ll let me.
“As long as I communicate to them how I’m feeling, if I feel done, if I feel good, if I’m hurting a little bit … I try to do as good a job as I can to communicate that, but at the end of the day, that’s not my decision. I’m here to do what they ask of me and pitch when they ask me to pitch and stop when they tell me to stop.”
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