Now I'm not so sure that's a safe assumption.
Top of the 6th inning, playing with the Mariners vs Athletics. Roenis Elias pitching, been wild all day. Walks the first batter he sees in Jed Lowrie. I noted his pitch count –*88 – and pulled him for a reliever.
I wanted to be sure I got the count right, so I went back into the Game Log with the intent of counting up to see if I got it right. First thing I noticed was some strangeness with the current inning. Said I'd pitched 15 pitches that inning. Whatever, though – no big deal, I figured there was some temporary glitch from putting in a reliever. I know from the replay that I walked Lowrie on a 3-1 count.
So I add up the previous innings, and I get a different number than the number I'd written down at the time I subbed out Elias: 96. Double-check my math:
1st inning: 28 pitches
2nd inning: 13 pitches
3rd inning: 18 pitches
4th inning: 19 pitchs
5th inning: 13 pitches
That makes 91 pitches, plus 5 pitches for the first batter in the 6th. 96.
I go back to the replay to double-check the pitch count there (you can see the pitch count in the replay screenshot below).
Now I go back to the game log, and those 15 pitches in the 6th inning look weirder and weirder. How can I have 15 pitches? Even if you take in account the current reliever/batter count (2-1), the most that could be is 8 pitches. There's no way they fouled off 7 pitches in the Quick Count imaginary land – the count would have to be two strikes for there to have been some sort of off-screen foul ball battle.
This isn't a big deal in the grand scheme of things, as the game still runs pretty great. But I was having some frustrations with Quick Counts, and wanted to suggest that Quick Counts would benefit from having the occasional 0-1, 1-0, and even 0-0 counts thrown in (especially against low Discipline players).
Now my stupid waste of time "research" into Quick Counts is even more of an obvious waste of time. So... I guess if you care about these types of things, don't put any weight into the Game Log's pitch count.
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