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Jeff Cirillo can pitch...


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not sure if i should put this here, or in the major leagues forum, but....when did Jeff suddenly become a pitcher? I know on a couple other occasions (also refreshed my memory when they showed this on FSNW) that players have pitched an inning or so for a team (Shawn Green and Mark Grace for the D-Backs). I know when Mark Grace pitched a few years back, it was more of a comedic outing.

 

 

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A team is faced with having a position player pitch every year or two. Either the bullpen is exhausted, the team's being blown out, or both.

 

I don't recall the last Brewer position player to pitch, but I'm sure someone will immediately remember.

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I think Durrington and Loretta were the last two for the Brewers.

 

Remember, Cirillo was a highly-touted pitcher as an amateur, and was told that his only chance to reach the big leagues would be as a pitcher.

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I think managers should do it more often. Not only is is good to save your bullpen, it's good for morale. Did you see the D-Backs dugout when Cirillo was on the mound? Or the crowd? Happy faces in a 9-0 loss is alright. It gives you a high point to rally around the next day.
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My husband and I found it interesting that the D-Backs fans around us didn't realize it was Cirillo until about 8 or 9 pitches in. I did a double-take when I realized who was on the mound. Good for him, though, to step in there, and do okay, given the circumstances.
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I remember Loretta's outing against Cincy in Cincy.

 

I wasn't watching on TV but I was listening on the radio to that one. I remember Uecker really getting a kick out of it. It was a day game I believe. Man, we lost a lot of games that year. I didn't watch many but I did listen to a lot at a job I had at the time and I just remember losing like every time.
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My every year or two estimate appears to be way off. A quick run-through at Baseball-Reference.com comes up with this list of position pitchers who pitched for the Brewers:

 <span style="font-weight: bold;">Trent Durrington</span> 2004 1 game 1/3 inning 0 earned runs
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Mark Loretta</span> 2001 1 game 1 inning 0 earned runs
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Rick Dempsey</span> 1991 2 games 2 innings 1 earned run
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Terry Francona</span> 1989 1 game 1 inning 0 earned runs
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Sal Bando</span> 1979 1 game 3 innings 2 earned runs
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Buck Martinez</span> 1979 1 game 1 inning 1 earned run
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Jim Gantner</span> 1979 1 game 1 inning 1 earned run

I easily could have missed somebody, but Surhoff never pitched.

That’s the only thing Chicago’s good for: to tell people where Wisconsin is.

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Managers don't do it more often for one reason:

 

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/img/06-06/0620gaffe_canseco.jpg

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"My every year or two estimate appears to be way off. A quick run-through at Baseball-Reference.com comes up with this list of position pitchers who pitched for the Brewers:"

I was also looking, and couldn't find any others. But if you look closer at the 3 players that pitched in 1979, you can find out they all pitched in the same game, August 29, 1979. The Royals were leading 13-4, still batting with no outs in the 4th inning. The Brewers had already burned 3 pitchers. Sal Bando takes over on the mound, allows the 2 inherited runners to score, plus 2 more runs, but gets out of the inning and settles down, pitching 2 more hitless innings. Jim Gantner comes in for the 7th, gives up a couple hits, and Buck Martinez pitches the 8th, giving up a run on a hit and walk. The Brewers lose 18-8.

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I had to look up the Canseco reference, but that's pretty amazing. I can't believe a manager would have a star player like that pitch in a situation like that.

 

well the Standard was pretty much set with Canseco.
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I think managers should do it more often. Not only is is good to save your bullpen, it's good for morale. Did you see the D-Backs dugout when Cirillo was on the mound? Or the crowd? Happy faces in a 9-0 loss is alright. It gives you a high point to rally around the next day.

I don't know if I agree. Maybe with some aging veteran, but I just think of Paul O'Neill. He pitched an inning when he was with the Red, and really regretted it because it messed up his arm.

 

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Wow. If Ned had sent Cirillo out to pitch in a blow-out, there would have been riots in the streets and a bloodthirsty mob forming around Miller Park.

Don't people do that anyway?

 

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I was at the Rick Dempsey game. Boston was killing the Brewers something like 16-4. Dempsey didn't do that bad. I must have blocked out the other pitchers, because I don't remember much else about the game.

 

I remember hoping that Molly would pitch. I think he had played every other position at some point in his career (except catcher).

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