{"id":41445,"date":"2020-08-06T07:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T04:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-dramatic-change-that-would-save-baseball-7-inning-games\/"},"modified":"2020-08-06T07:35:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T04:35:00","slug":"the-dramatic-change-that-would-save-baseball-7-inning-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-dramatic-change-that-would-save-baseball-7-inning-games\/","title":{"rendered":"#The dramatic change that would save baseball: 7-inning games"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#The dramatic change that would save baseball: 7-inning game<\/a>s<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n PHILADELPHIA \u2014 Sure, had the Yankees received six more outs with which to work early Wednesday evening, they very well might have completed their coup against Joe Girardi\u2019s shaky Phillies bullpen.<\/p>\n

They just had to settle for saving the sport of baseball.<\/p>\n

Say it with me, everyone: seven-inning games!<\/p>\n

The Yankees\u2019 first doubleheader of seven-inning contests ended with a split. They countered an 11-7 Game 1 loss, a sleepy affair in which they scored four runs in the last inning to make it interesting, with a bullpenning, 3-1 victory in Game 2.<\/p>\n

Most important: Game 1 lasted 2 hours and 44 minutes, even squeezing in an epic tirade by Yankees third-base coach Phil Nevin against loathed umpire Angel Hernandez, and Game 2 improved on that with a 2:38. Party like it\u2019s 1985!<\/p>\n

\u201cI like them,\u201d Phillies manager Joe Girardi said, \u201cbecause you can get in some of these doubleheaders and they\u2019re two four-hour games and then if they\u2019re split doubleheaders, it\u2019s a day at the ballpark from 10 o\u2019clock until midnight. And that\u2019s not easy on players. I think it\u2019s hard on their health as well. \u2026 So I think it\u2019s a great idea.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked if he\u2019d be in favor of this change beyond the current season, when the players and owners signed on for it out of respect for the coronavirus, Girardi \u2014 who has served on Major League Baseball\u2019s Competition Committee \u2014 said, \u201cYes, I would.\u201d<\/p>\n

Added Yankees outfielder Mike Tauchman, who delivered the game-winning, seventh-inning hit in the nightcap: \u201cI\u2019m kind of all for it. I wouldn\u2019t be opposed to seven-inning DHs every single Sunday and every single Monday off going forward. I\u2019m just saying.\u201d<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s just say, in the form of a proposal, something even more dramatic. Make every regular-season contest, even the non-doubleheaders, seven innings long. Given all of the valid concerns about the average time of game creeping past three hours, it would positively impact the game\u2019s marketability and app<\/a>eal.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s our three-phase plan to make this happen:<\/p>\n

\u2014 Develop a vaccine for COVID-19 in time for the 2021 season to proceed normally.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Next year, turn all doubleheaders into seven-inning jobs.<\/p>\n

\u2014 In 2022, make all regular-season games seven innings. In a nod to the past, overtime non-doubleheader affairs can be played normally in the eighth and ninth innings before implementing the \u201crunner on second base\u201d incentive in the 10th. In the eighth inning of doubleheaders, the runners should sprint out to second base as a display of urgency to get going already.<\/p>\n

The postseason can remain nine innings because the tension and suspense justify the length, and that way the networks can make their nut with two more innings\u2019 worth of commercials.<\/p>\n

The game has been heading this way anyway, what with openers, relievers airing it out for short stints and only the best starting pitchers going more than two times through the lineup. Why not acknowledge those truths and speed things up to the last out. All the pitchers will still get plenty of reps, as exemplified by Aaron Boone\u2019s successful, five-pitcher voyage through Game 2.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt goes quick,\u201d said Luke Voit, who homered and singled in Game 2. \u201cYou\u2019ve got to get your runs in early because you can do a lot of different moves. \u2026 I think it\u2019s good for the players in injury prevention, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moreover, \u201cTake Me Out to the Ballgame\u201d sounds even better in the fifth inning than it does in the seventh.<\/p>\n

The coronavirus hardly has brought out the best in MLB, what with the financial squabbling between players and owners and owners taking way too long to refund their ticket-holding customers. It has produced some ideas worth retaining, however. There isn\u2019t a better keeper than the seven-inning ballgame.<\/p>\n

In \u201cThere\u2019s Something About Mary,\u201d Ben Stiller\u2019s character picks up a hitchhiker who preaches, \u201cSeven\u2019s the key number!\u201d That maniac was right. Wouldn\u2019t it make far more sense to leave folks wanting for more instead of begging for less?\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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