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“Gil would come out to the mound in a tough spot and say, ‘you’re throwing great and I’m not coming back out here to get you, You do whatever it takes,'” Seaver said. “You know what that meant? It meant that eight other guys were on that field counting on you. They were in the same foxhole with you.
“The day I won my 300th game (pitching for the White Sox against the Yankees on Aug. 4, 1985) Dave Duncan came out to the mound,” Seaver said. “(Tony) La Russa had been ejected in the fifth or sixth, so it’s (pitching coach) Duncan who says to me, ‘if you think I’m taking you out in front of 60,000 people at Yankee Stadium, you’re out of your mind.'”
Seaver said, “I ended up throwing 148 pitches that day.”
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