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bukIpower said:
Anyone else bothered how in Softball many times the same pitcher keeps playing game after game? If a team has one great/dominant pitcher then they normally go deep in the post season and to me that's a joke.
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Mike80 said:
throwing underhand doesn't have anywhere near the same effect on the shoulder joint that throwing a baseball does...
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I don't think it's a question of health; rather one of competitive fairness. My sister had a college quality softball pitcher on one of her teams growing up and they went undefeated behind said pitcher throwing a complete game shutout every time out (or close to it) and the rest of the team showing up.

I don't particularly care, it's just something that creates a unique situation in softball.
 
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Buckeye86 said:
I don't think it's a question of health; rather one of competitive fairness. My sister had a college quality softball pitcher on one of her teams growing up and they went undefeated behind said pitcher throwing a complete game shutout every time out (or close to it) and the rest of the team showing up.

I don't particularly care, it's just something that creates a unique situation in softball.
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I do agree - if you could have someone like Randy Johnson or Clayton Kershaw throw every game and be effective, you would absolutely do it.

As for the arm motion, it doesn't use the rotator cuff in the same way it does in pitching a baseball, and there certainly isn't the strain on the elbow like there is in baseball (and the massive amounts of Tommy John surgeries recently)...

http://bangordailynews.com/2015/05/...er-softball-windmill-pitch-easier-on-the-arm/

Basically if a softball players mechanics are right and she doesn't have a leg or back injury, they can pitch forever and still be ok, at least for a while. at some point any muscle group will reach fatigue/failure however.
 
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Dryden said:
Not too different from the Diamondbacks riding Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling, or the Red Sox with Pedro and Derek Lowe, or the Cardinals with Carpenter and Wainright.

If Randy Johnson could've preserved his shoulder and elbow by throwing underhand he'd have started 175 games a season.
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Kids. How soon they forget "Spahn and Sain and two days of rain."
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Or "Koufax and Drysdale and two days of hale."

Unfortunately the Reds seem to only every have one ace at a time, so it was "Maloney/Gullett/Rijo and apres moi les deluge."
 
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