RECORDS THAT WON’T BE BROKEN. Staying with Major League Baseball this week. The record that won’t be broken is the number of innings pitched during a specific season.

This is a little bit of a trick question. This record that will never be broken is because it goes all the way back 146 years. It belongs to Will White who amazed an incredible 680 innings pitched in 1879 for the Cincinnati Reds. Not making that up.

Obviously, no one will come close to that in this day and age of MLB. That’s because back in the day there were no relief pitchers. The hurler who took the bump would pitch the entire nine innings or more no matter what the score happened to be.

So let’s just take a look at innings pitched by pitchers since 1950. We have to scroll down all the way to #334 on the list before we come across Chicago White Sox lefty Wilbur Wood. In 1973 the knuckleballer took the pill and completed 359.1 innings.

Today’s hurdles won’t even come close to that mark and here’s why. In the last 25 years, the most innings pitched is by the late Roy Halladay. Pitching for Baltimore the Orioles, the righthander logged 266 innings in 2003.

So do the math, Buddy. That still comes up 92.2 innings shy of Wood. That’s just over 10 more complete games.

So, as you plainly see, with hurlers dealing with pitch counts and five and sometimes six man rotations the mark set Will White will never be broken. In fact the modern day bar set Wilbur Wood in 1973 won’t be achieved as well.

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