Joe Maddon

I think seventh or eighth inning we scored several runs and eventually made it 8-0.

Going into the ninth inning, I think he had right around 110 pitches.

Easy to pull him at that point.

The thing that I learned as a minor league coach, I thought, instructor, when a dude walks off the mound with a complete game shutout, changes him.

Changes him.

And I thought, within limits, let him go back out there.

I think he ended up with nine innings, 122, 123, 124, shutout, and very limited number of hits.

That's it.

I mean, a mind once stretched has a difficult time going back to its original form.

So then once you stretch your mind to nine innings, and I like this, it's a drug, I want to do this all the time.

I got a lot of crap from the front office, quite frankly, about that.

I love that.

Why didn't you pull them after I gave them the exact reason I'm telling you right now?

I can remember Colin Charlin pitching a complete game in Palm Springs in whatever year that was.

I'm the roving instructor.

David Holdridge, same thing.

Guys you've never heard about, but it definitely enhanced their minor league careers at that point.

Yeah.

So when he gets to the playoff game in Pittsburgh, Jake's done that before.

He's tweeting.