go the distance

“I don’t know if Tommy was watching this game very closely,” Cey said, “because he let Fernando go the distance.”

“Fernando’s tank was empty because we were pitching every fourth day, and we had to go the distance to beat Houson and Montreal … I can understand why Fernando was out of gas, because I was, too.”

Suddenly, a series that seemed capable of ending in a sweep after Game 1 now looks like it could go the distance.

If our season ultimately ends in disappointment and someone’s head should roll it should be Andrew Friedman’s for throwing hundreds of millions of dollars at fragile pitchers who cannot go the distance and overseeing a pitching program that blows out far too many young, promising arms!

Jermaine Jenas: It was April before Liverpool fell off the pace last season and I feel like they will go the distance again.