I’ve heard teams saying the players were fatigued and couldn’t play the second game as well, but didn’t they have a two or 3 day break between the games? Why isn’t that enough time to recover? I’d think one night would be enough to sleep, eat, and re-energize.
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In baseball, for example, most of the team plays about six days a week. Because unless they get hurt, you are right, a night of rest is plenty to recuperate from a bit of running, throwing, and bat swinging.
Pitchers though, they take multiple days off between games, at most pitching around once a week. Unless it’s post season, and you use your stars as much as possible, and they can rest over the winter. This is because throwing a ball at around 85-100mph a hundred times really works the arm, and it’s just not sustainable to do that every day, or even every few days. Try throwing a ball as hard as you can a few times. It will *hurt*. No try throwing it much harder than you ever could over and over for hours. You need to heal from that. Not just get a little sleep.
So basically, it depends on the sport/players, but it can definitely take days before an athlete is ready to compete again.
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