TV
is determined to kill baseball, and baseball won’t do a thing about it. Last night, the Dodgers beat the Cubs 1-0, in
a game that featured all of 13 baserunners total, one of them being a homerun
and two of them erased on double plays.
The game took 2:45 to complete.
The
night before, the Indians beat the Blue Jays 2-1. Between them, both teams managed all of seven
hits along with four walks. The game
went a minute shorter than the Cubs and Dodgers. And let’s not forget game five of the NLDS,
where the seventh inning took 66 minutes because both teams scored six runs,
three coming off of homeruns. A 4-3
nine-inning contest took 4 hours and 32 minutes, which happens to be a
postseason record.
The
Fox sports cable broadcast periodically ran commercials right up to the pitcher
going into his windup because, well, there were commercials that had to be
run. The fans be damned. Right, Commissioner Manfred?
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