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share-square-1689771 The independent Atlantic League of Professional Baseball will experiment with two revolutionary rule changes in the 2021 season, limiting teams’ use of the designated-hitter position to when their starting pitcher is in the game and lengthening the distance between home plate and the pitcher’s rubber by one foot. These changes have been implemented by Major League Baseball as part of an ongoing partnership between the two leagues that began in 2019 to examine the effects of various rule and equipment alterations. Coupled with the rule changes that will be tested at th...

Moving the Mound In the first of the rule changes, the pitching rubber will be pushed back as requested by MLB. The 12-inch push back moves the mound to 61-feet-6-inches from home. This will be the first time the pitcher’s mound will be moved since 1893. “It’s a direct response to the escalating strikeout rate,” said Morgan Sword, MLB’s executive vice-president of baseball operations. “You’re giving the hitter approximately one one-hundredth of a second of additional time to decide whether to swing at a pitch, which has the effect just in terms of reaction time of reducing the e...

In it, the Boston-based rockers display their understanding of life’s fragility with unyielding conviction; the three-minute-thirty-two-second ode to loved ones now-lost comes beautifully packaged in an enrapturing blend of alternative rock and string sections, which tug gently on the listener’s emotions. To quote the lyrics: “Springtime, I keep losing my friends and family, too. It’s so strange. Beauty mixed with such pain I can’t reconcile,” is an all-too-real depiction of feelings we inevitably face when the connection between two individuals — whether it be friendship, famil...

Astoria Bier & Cheese [Official] Astoria Eats, a new Queens-based food delivery platform that launched earlier this week, is looking to provide a local, more cost-effective alternative so restaurants don’t have to rely on larger third-party delivery companies like Grubhub and UberEats. Already, the platform has signed on seven Astoria restaurants including popular Bangladeshi establishment Boishakhi and Greek spot Zenon Taverna. For now, the focus is local, and the delivery platform is meant to be a precursor to a planned new food hall in the neighborhood. Queens blogger Joe DiStefano is sp...