The beauty of baseball - you can't run out the clock
- Thread starter Prestonyte
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And that's why college baseball's ten run mercy rule is so stupid. Baseball is supposed to be a 9 inning game that isn't over until 27 outs are recorded, not some arbitrary run total being reached.
Exactly. Strange things can happen if you let it play out the way it was designed.
Why change a game that was perfect to start with?
Run rules, pitch clocks, designated hitters, - why?
Why change a game that was perfect to start with?
Run rules, pitch clocks, designated hitters, - why?
The run rule is a copout. That's like saying we should stop a football game before the 4th quarter if one team is down 4 touchdowns.
Kinda like UGA taking a 9-0 lead in the top of the first to A&M, only to get run ruled 19-9 in the 7th.
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Run rule was designed for those who don't love baseball and just want an excuse to go home early.
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I can't even wrap my head around these 2 items.
Scoring 12 runs with 2 outs bottom of the 9th.
Losing in that fashion. Devastating.
Scoring 12 runs with 2 outs bottom of the 9th.
Losing in that fashion. Devastating.
Pitchers and batters began to abuse the game by excessive fiddling with their garments and equipment between pitches. Numerous mound visits by managers. Brining in many relief pitchers. Lots of TV commercials between half innings. Prior to this, your average 9-inning game took 2-2¼ hours to complete.
Now there are some changes which are fine. Contemporary aluminum bats are okay. Night baseball is fine. Signing the distance to the outfield fences in meters to help us join the rest of the world and metricate, And have it be a whole number of meters and fractionalize the feet. Distance between bases and home will still need to be 90 feet (~27.4 meters doesn't work).
The way to solve the designated hitter nonsense is for pitchers to take more batting practice. And this might also reduce the number of high scoring games, thus eliminating any need/desire for a run rule. Or maybe allow it if both teams consent (think 03/19/2023 in Athens when USC was beating UGA 12-2. If the Dawgs agreed to throw in the towel, call it a game - that was the last Gamecock baseball game I attended).