Can a pitcher start two games in a row

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Carl Mays. Urban Shocker. A related question would then be: are pitchers making adjustments to their game plan when facing the team the second time?

Are they throwing different types of pitches at different times in the game? At the most basic level, there is some evidence that pitchers do in fact throw less fastballs the second time around. These differences are quite small of course, on the order of one pitch per start. In breaking down each start by times through the order, the slightly lower fastball percentages are spread quite equally throughout the start, so there is no evidence of a more concerted effort to throw less fastballs the first time through the order in the second start, for example.

Of course just looking at pitch type frequencies does not identify potential changes in pitch sequencing, which I suspect may be more likely to yield differences when starting pitchers find themselves in these situations.

There is nothing earth shattering learned here, but as far as applying these results, at least if you play fantasy baseball, you can relax when one of your starters faces the same team in back-to-back starts, as we know now on average they will fare just about as well, save perhaps a slight hit on the strikeout rate.

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Another review was inconclusive, so the original call stood. The rest of the reviews confirmed the original call on the field.