danny, experience has shown that when a starting pitcher throws an unusually high number of pitches in a game, it impacts him negatively in his next several starts.
A classic example of recent years was when Edwin Jackson threw his 149-pitch no-hitter. He was absolute garbage for about 6 or 7 starts after that.
I also remember a game where Tito let Schilling throw 130-something pitches, and Curt was awful his next few starts, and Tito took his lumps for it.