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Good Luck, Hideo
2005-01-27 16:11
by Jon Weisman

If you can make it there
You'll make it some-where
It's up to you
Tampa Bay
Tampa Bay

Wednesday, March 9: Dodgers vs. Tampa Bay. Scott Erickson vs. Hideo Nomo?

Update: In the prehistoric era of Dodger Thoughts, on September 13, 2002, I wrote the following:

After Hideo Nomo threw 132 pitches in the Dodgers' victory over San Francisco on Wednesday, players, coaches and reporters raved at his toughness. In response to the concept that throwing more than 120 pitches in a game has increasingly been proven to have a potentially harmful effect, these people all cited the fact that Nomo had exceeded the mark in Japan often, including a 191-pitch, 16-walk complete game. What they don't seem to remember is that Nomo's arm then went dead in the late-1990s, causing him to be released by the Dodgers and later by the Cubs.

I can't be the judge of whether this one-time pushing of Nomo will have a harmful effect, but I would feel better if the people closer to him were at least cognizant of the risk. The harm won't come in the game he throws the 132 pitches - it would come after.

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