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A fielding error by Arkansas first baseman Jake Scheiner in the top of the 10th inning Thursday allowed Delvin Perez to score, giving the Springfield Cardinals a 4-3 victory over the Travelers in front of 2,511 fans at Dickey-Stephens Park in North Little Rock.
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Tulsa – For the second straight game, the Tulsa Drillers staged a dramatic rally Sunday afternoon to defeat Springfield. One night after rallying from four runs down, the Drillers overturned a one-run Cardinals lead on Sunday when Jeren Kendall belted a two-out grand slam home run in the bottom of
Tulsa – For the second straight game, the Tulsa Drillers staged a dramatic rally Sunday afternoon to defeat Springfield. One night after rallying from four runs down, the Drillers overturned a one-run Cardinals lead on Sunday when Jeren Kendall belted a two-out grand slam home run in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Drillers a 6-3 victory.
George Carlin once said, “Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.”
I’m reminded of this quote whenever a new rule change is proposed or implemented in baseball and is largely (and predictably) followed by outrage from outspoken purists. Of course, we all know that rule changes themselves are nothing new; it’s been about a century since the ball was first brought to life and decades since the mound was lowered, both changes that were met with contemporaneousskepticism of their own.
Some of the rule changes being proposed and implemented in the sport today address similar aspects of the game as those of yesteryear, namely, counteracting pitchers’ dominance and steering the sport away from a subsequent three-true-outcomes landscape. But another seeming motivation behind MLB’s tinkering these days is simply to shorten the length of games – a hard sell to those of us who would prefer more baseball to less. Unsurprisingly, what was once generally a sk