This entry was posted on July 12, at pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site. I remember reading once that Brooklyn Dodgers outfielder Pete Reiser was the reason warning tracks were invented.
He was an all-out type of player who sustained injuries from crashing into walls. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. If a ball strikes the two lower levels, it is completely in play, meaning they can fall in for a hit or an out.
If a ball strikes the top two levels, it is either a foul ball or a home run depending on whether the ball strikes the catwalks in fair or foul territory. No stadium in baseball has more foul territory than the Oakland Coliseum. The white ceiling was a bit of an advantage to the Twins, but the Twins themselves were prone to losing the ball to the ceiling. Of all the things the Metrodome will be remembered for, perhaps that annoying white ceiling will be what most ballplayers and fans recall.
Once upon a time, Shea Stadium was the crown jewel of new baseball stadiums, and one of its best feature was the Big Apple no pun intended that popped up every time a Met hit a home run. No other stadium in baseball has a pool for fans to take a swim during games.
While the Diamondbacks may be inconsistent, their stadium is cool, and taking a dip is a great way to cool off in the desert…. For some strange reason, there is a random hill on the centerfield warning track at Minute Maid Park. While it has helped centerfielders bring a few balls back into the park, it has served as a weird ballpark feature, and a bit of a nuisance to visiting players.
The Rays have a fish tank filled with Cownose Rays that fans can observe and feed during games. All the proceeds from the feedings go to charities, as well as donations for any home run hit into the tank. Combining aquatic life and baseball may be strange, but in this case, it makes for an interesting experience. So much so, that team ERAs ballooned every time they played in Denver.
Eventually, the Rockies installed a humidor room, which houses the baseballs the Rockies use during their games. This humidor alters the balls to make them not travel as far, which as of today has been a resounding success.
Babe Ruth never had to deal with a cutter, slider or splitter or this kind of velocity. It's simply never been harder to make contact as a major-league hitter.
And yet, when a player does make contact and it's not a home run, it often ends up right in the glove of a perfectly positioned defender. See the Tatis play above. That ball was crushed. First off, the easiest rule to write is to make sure that every infielder is actually an infielder. Each of the four infield position players are required to have no more than one foot on the outfield grass when the pitch is thrown. The next step is a two infielders on each side of second base rule that's been kicked around for years.
We don't need a physical line through second base or anything, so it's on the umpires for discretion. I trust them with this. As for my feeling that a ball up the middle or in the 5. A rule could be designed to create "zones" where players are allowed to play at each position, but I don't want drawn circles on the field or anything like that -- which would be erased during the course of the game -- and I don't know how to enforce said zones without circles.
I think I just have to accept that teams are going to play guys up the middle and do mild shifts within the new hypothetical rules. Still, I want to ban the excessive shifting. No more infielders in the outfield or three guys on one side of second base. Implement this, please, Major League Baseball. The batting average is just far too low and there isn't much we can do about the strikeouts at this point.
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