“I don’t know how many pitches I threw, but it couldn’t have been much more than 90. Those were pretty quick innings, so I don’t think Lasorda could have taken me off that mound,” said Sheets. “Even if he’d come out to the mound to get me, it didn’t matter, you know? Because I was living in the moment, man, and it was a special moment. You don’t cheat yourself out of something like that. People might have said I shouldn’t have stayed in the game, and that I hadn’t thrown a complete game all season to that point. But that was something you never forget for the rest of your life, so there
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