It looks like there is a new way of doing things in the Astros’ farm system. In the last week, Corpus Christi pitchers, Casey Hudspeth and Douglas Arguello have each thrown a 9 inning complete game. Prior to these two, a complete game had not been thrown by a Hooks pitcher in almost 2 years (Ronnie Martinez 6/9/07).
“I wanted to give him (starter Casey Hudspeth) a shot to complete his game,” Pujols said. “I believe that they’re not even looking at the dugout anymore. They’re just pitching until we take them out. And they know that. They see that we’ve already proved that if they pitch well enough to complete a game, they’re going to do it.”
“He (starter Douglas Arguello) finished the eighth pretty fresh,” Pujols said. “The thing this year is there are no (set) pitch counts. I felt he was throwing the ball pretty well and gave him a chance to finish the game.”