He started the game, but left during the first inning because of a bad backache, which caused Torre to use his bullpen to finish the game.

Zambrano started the 2002 season with the AAA Iowa Cubs, but was quickly called up to the big leagues where he was dispatched to the bullpen and pitched in sixteen games during the first three months of the season.

Nicknamed " Big Train ", he played catcher but started out helping pitchers warm up in the bullpen.

That year, he started only six games and was quickly moved to the bullpen.

He started the year in the Cubs bullpen but was sent down to the Iowa Cubs on June 3.

He started a few games with the Rangers, but was moved to the bullpen when the club received Ryan Dempster.

He started in the bullpen, but was moved to the starting rotation in early July and recorded a 3. 48 ERA and 9 – 5 record.

At the start of the season Glover was a candidate to fill a spot in the bullpen left open by the injured Mike Remlinger but started the year with the Triple-A Iowa Cubs after a terrible spring training.

That year, he started 31 games and made 36 appearances, 5 out of the bullpen.

Following the season, he signed as a free agent with the California Angels. He started the season in the Angels ' starting rotation, but after going 0 – 4 with a 4. 68 ERA in his first five starts, was moved into the bullpen.

He started the season in the bullpen but, after allowing only two hits in five scoreless innings, he was back in the rotation.

In 1934, his first full season with the Yankees, Murphy started 20 games ( completing 10 ); for the remaining 11 years of his major league career, he would start only 20 games more, as he became one of the top bullpen specialists of his day.

Papelbon started using Metallica's " For Whom The Bell Tolls " as he walks in from the bullpen.

He started the season 0-3 with a 4. 58 ERA before being demoted to the bullpen.

Merritt started the season in the bullpen, but moved into the starting rotation in June.

When 1985 started, the Red Sox were overstocked on starting pitchers, including a young Roger Clemens, so Ojeda was relegated to the bullpen.

Tsao signed with the Kansas City Royals for the season with a minor league contract and invitation to spring training to compete for a spot in the bullpen and rotation, but did not make the team and started the season in Triple-A.

The ball was hit so hard and deep that Gionfriddo, already playing deep, did not have time to turn around, literally having to " back-back-back "- pedal to snare the ball just in front of the bullpen-alley fence, near the marker posted to the center field side of the bullpen alley ( the sign on the left field side of the alley was posted as 402 ).

He missed a second 20-win season that year when he was forced to miss a couple of starts after breaking his foot when joking around in the bullpen.

Since then, the Moose has become quite adept at driving his own ATV around Safeco Field's warning track while performing various tricks and having water coolers emptied on him by bullpen pitchers.

Without that, such as when she was used irregularly from the bullpen, her control would waver, and her fastballs in the 76-79 mph range were knocked all around or out of the park.

He spent the first half of the season in the a starting role before a trip to Buffalo and successful transition to the bullpen turned around his season.

Though by the close of the 1989 season the team boasted a powerhouse bullpen in the AL Cy Young Award winner Bret Saberhagen ( set franchise record with 23 wins in ), two time All-Star Mark Gubicza ( 15 game winner in 1989 ) and 1989 AL Rookie of the Year runner-up Tom Gordon ( won 17 games in 1989 ), the organization felt they were still missing a few pieces that would give the divisional rivals Oakland Athletics a run for their money.

Despite the promising off-season moves, the team suffered critical bullpen injuries while the newly signed Davis hurlers both experienced lackluster performances throughout the 1990 campaign.

Poor bullpen play put the team even further out of contention by the end of July, which caused the Brewers to trade ace pitcher Zack Greinke to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in exchange for top minor league shortstop Jean Segura and two minor league relief pitchers.

Before Fingers ' time, a former starter's renewed success in the bullpen would have led back to a spot in the starting rotation ; but since the successes of not only Fingers but also contemporaries such as Sparky Lyle and Goose Gossage, it has been widely accepted that an excellent pitcher might actually provide a greater benefit to his team as a closer than as a third or fourth starter.

Hunter, along with an improved team and solid bullpen pitching, led a resurgence in the latter half of the season which powered the Twins to win the American League Central Division.

An unusual feature that Petco Park has is the home team bullpen is located behind the left-center field wall while the bullpen for the visiting is in foul territory on the first base side.

On September 15, Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver pulled his team off the field because he felt the bricks holding down the bullpen tarps were a hazard to his players.

He assumed the bullpen coach position in the season, replacing Elrod Hendricks who the team intended to reassign to another position in the organization before his death.

But the sterling bullpen, headed by Gossage and Craig “ Lefty ” Lefferts, held the staff together enough to take this team to the “ Big Show ” although they would falter and get ripped by the Tiger bats losing the Series in five games.

He remained hopeful that he would return to the team and pitch out of the bullpen in September, however it was eventually decided that he would have surgery on his shoulder on September 21 and would not return to the mound that season.

" Glover made the team and worked out of the bullpen and by the middle of the season he had earned a reputation for reliability.

" Jamie was a total professional and team player when we let him know of the decision to move him to the bullpen.

Sturtze requested to stay with the team in some capacity, so he was made a bullpen catcher for the remainder of the season and into the playoffs.

Though he was a member of the National League All-Star team that year, he was traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates the next spring, where he was moved to the bullpen.

He was the Braves ' bullpen coach from 1991 to 1998 and earned a ring as a part of the 1995 World Series championship team.

The team considered using Papelbon as a starter due to his shoulder problems, but he was moved back to the bullpen before the start of the 2007 season and remained the team's closer.

Sele served as the long man from the bullpen for the team.

Although he was on the " taxi squad " as a bullpen catcher, he failed to make the team at Cypress College.

As a member of the 2001 team that won an MLB record 116 games, he was a lefty specialist, fleshing out a bullpen which also featured Japanese closer Kazuhiro Sasaki, Jeff Nelson, and fellow lefty Arthur Rhodes.

It was on this Oakland team where he earned the nickname " Snacks ", for his apparent love of " inhaling " junk food in the bullpen.

The manager of the defensive team will sometimes go to the bullpen, especially in close games where a reliever has already entered the game, and pull out a left-handed specialist to face the left-handed batter.

The Giants went 9 – 23 in his starts ; the bullpen lost leads in five of his starts and the team scored 2 runs or fewer in 21 of his starts.

Brewers manager Davey Lopes asked the team for a volunteer to pitch an inning in hopes of saving the depleted bullpen, and Loretta volunteered.