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dous to a hitter s health nothing in the specifications or professional north american rules contradicts the basic design shape so far we re barely out of march 2025 the on deck baseball doughnut developed by elston howard roger maris s 34 ounce h b babe ruth s mighty stick the ash wood louisville slugger 30 years ago maple wood so yesterday today torpedomania right off the bat indeed posted in miscellaneous leave a comment let s play two posted on april 27 2023 by rightoffthebatbook ernie banks s enthusiasm was contagious as covid 19 as he declared let s play two will the regularly scheduled doubleheader the double dip make a comeback in major league baseball perhaps even in deference to other sports schedules auguring this is a matter of time literally nice work if you can get it to produce a leaner product mlb introduces the pitch clock 2 seconds shaved with runner or runners on base in 2024 decrees a limit to pick off throws and heeds the message that fashionable yet soul sucking analytics shifts be outlawed returning infielders to position defined placements for good measure near pillow sized bases have been tossed in to encourage between pitches action from some seasons ago observe sparser per game visits 5 to the pitcher fewer sermons on the mound with mvr standing for mound visits remaining as of the 2021 season rule 7 04 in the official baseball rules states games cannot be played under protest almost assuredly this was to cut down on time wasting arguments until the world war ii era successfully protested games were rare only 5 from 1876 through 1942 since then to 2020 there had been 153 it s the coral and the hare free runners or ghost runners a k a manfred man for commissioner rob manfred continue to haunt or come on without come on within ties at nine innings are expeditiously resolved for the most part relief pitchers are required to face the minimum three batters unless such artists from the pen suffer an injury or are replaced once an inning concludes in 2025 find a stiffened penalty for any fielder such as second baseman or shortstop who violates the infield shift rule and is the first to touch the ball should this happen the batter will be awarded first base and any runners would advance one base also in 2025 spring training games will experiment with robo umpires in judgment of pitchers and batters via the abs automated ball strike system call for the ty d bol man anyone for a i benches have 10 seconds from an umpire s call to request video reviews by misfortune these continue to slow an otherwise quickened tempo and the prospect of hawk eye too is this a ballgame or an oil painting baseball a largely swifter freer electrifying 21st century springtime version of itself young fast and yes still coming mother to analytics scientific and you pays your money and takes your joyce amidst the within game sea change each club now would also get a whack at every club over the course of 162 games the good the bad and the wallydraigle this is known as a balanced schedule tho it s really somewhat hapless shapeless with respect to geographic rivalries meaning more travel private airline convivia and travel fatigue aside from experience on the minor leagues level it s estimated the average nine innings mlb game shall diet from three hours and three minutes to two and a half hours welcome home then to the old fashioned weekend afternoon doubleheader the twiniter such would no longer amount to a crushing especially if kids are involved eight hours plus at the stadium we don t care if we never get back not ballplayers would earn the timely extra day blow that off day following a sunday doubleheader would ease extra travel pressures deriving from fewer intra division divisions are predicated on traditional rivalries by location games a number that s dropped from 19 to 13 so many clubs qualifying for wild card berths diminish the significance of divisional play possibly an unwise decision by mlb which had faced economic pressures to model itself on other u s pro sports in their loooong seasons the nfl nba and especially the nhl in fall winter spring summer halftime yet fatalistic vampiric is that a word what about umpiric analytics too over our years had been sapping life from games extinguishing the scintillating the spontaneity the fun oodles of money can foster a clumpy effect joy can t be monetized reducing longevous rococo florid ballgames to the even worse predetermined outcomes time for le cordon sanitaire to boredom infielders athleticism would be on display batters would return to purer in the moment hand eye coordination pitchers would rely on muscle memory capacity sans ipad opacity and the powers are thinking of the stalwart fans mere efts a novel approach to that recessive gene of fandom as no games on spring summer holidays such as july 4th leave a hole in the soul um heaven forbid between innings commercials be reduced to interlunations frequency or accelerated to meteoric speed they d be mvp d stubbornly timidly reluctant to change compared to cricket which has reinvented itself in timely ways baseball by its starchy branchiopod standards is going all out to inject banks s ardour um even to schedule pack a windlestraw lunch doubleheaders that simultaneously re energize long case clock fans and galvanize younger ones a similar novel approach now to foreshadow the past um the game is afoot to return to jesterday s 154 regular season or similar thereby expanding the wild cards formula yet not playing deep in november and scheduling doubleheaders may well be part of this plan in the summer rhythmic diurnality of baseball wherein the rivalries and history of the world are played out lilliputian wherein followers debate and thrive in nostalgia its opposite being the prescient past on the modern rare day off we ll imaginatively play the regularly scheduled two too jestermorrow posted in baseball cricket tagged analytics ernie banks major league baseball twinight doubleheader 2 comments wait til next year posted on october 30 2020 by rightoffthebatbook need we say more the drouth was over it ended the only way it could a rebarbative plague infected player celebrated along with the still healthy ones after six games some fans were inside a gleaming hitherto unused untested no pun in this get tested era stadium the first to see in person action since a handful of spring training exhibitions call it and what follows the dangling hot stove league conversation another tale told by an idiot a k a a workshopping of 2021 there turned out to be no reappearance of baseball at the summer olympics after all and no showcase anarchy in the uk there were 14 innings doubleheaders and the prospect of tripleheaders tenth innings started with fleet runners on second base one club clubbed 29 runs in needless to say a rout teams got sick teams got well hang around uh inkwell there was annoying piped fan noise home teams wore road uniforms and vice versa sometimes the players themselves couldn t figure out when a game was won or lost there was a team playing its home schedule in another country within a minor league setting the entire minor league season all levels had been canceled there was little talk of manufacturing runs what made in the usa or foreign factory does that hoho batted balls either flew out of vacant parks cf scoring 29 above or there was a k the spin rate launch angle analytics exit velocity era was in full swing as it were why outfielders or maybe 4 even 5 there was the cricketlike shifting of infielders or we ve had to grow accustomed to four outfielders there was serious talk about fun and the pace of the professional game hitting below the mendoza line was virtually acceptable and probably inevitable thro a puny 60 game schedule this sample size determination versus a regular season 162 games plus 30 to 40 preseason in part accounts for many statistical anomalies essentially we watched an april and september season more anomalies you ask a recently disgraced if unrepentant sub 500 team almost sneaked into the world series something like half the teams were rewarded with postseason berths in hard times there were unseemly disputes between rich ballplayers and richer owners over what else more riches and a zillionaire owner of questioned background would change the topography of new york baseball there was players outcry throughout mlb we must love one another or die lost in 2020 were kaline seaver gibson brock ford morgan horace clarke gained in all probability thus saving jobs was the dh by the n l which hereby would join the rest of the uncivilized baseball world it seems increasingly likely the full change would occur round a new collective bargaining agreement cba in 2022 23 loss and gain are brothers twain watch out for neutral site world series which aren t plagued by the late october or even november or beyond vagaries of unseasonable heat unreasonable cold rain wind and sleet snow year round international baseball long predicted on the model of the icc has to be in the metaphorical offing it started in season as so called subway series more and more regional rivalries will further supersede traditional intraleague play there s overlap of course rivalries costs will be cut that way questionable is whether from here every announcer will travel with his or her team anymore or regularly gather onsite during cdc projected waves of the coronavirus more costs cut and zoom it s back to the future about a century ago during other times of a great plague in 1918 enigmatic hal chase was accused of cheating certainly gambling on baseball and his name seeped into before he was acquitted of such involvement the chicago black sox scandal a year later as we saw among several recently the above referenced houston astros as well as the boston red sox if history doesn t repeat its stories and lessons rhyme this witticism ofttimes is attributed to mark twain even if he never said it positively he never saw the clever observation published under or over his name it took babe ruth and the live ball era revolution of the home run just as perhaps proponents of analytics or anti analytics are functionally accomplishing today to rejuvenate the game irony is its own reward the walking shadow that measures what we lost on to le sacre du printemps in 2021 or 2022 or even 2023 and then well beyond that when it s wait til this year all over again it was the 2020 stupid posted in baseball cricket ipl right off the bat website stadiums tagged al kaline amed rosario analytics aroldis chapman atlanta braves babe ruth batting average bob gibson boston red sox buffalo bisons chicago black sox scandal cricket designated hitter doubleheader exit velocity florida marlins globe life field hal chase home run horace clarke hot stove league houston astros icc joe morgan justin turner launch angle literature live ball era lively ball los angeles dodgers lou brock major league baseball major league baseball players association mark twain mendoza line miami marlins minor leagues national league new york mets philadelphia phillies ronald reagan sabermetrics sahlen field spring training steve cohen strikeout k subway series summer olympics theo epstein tom seaver tony clark toronto blue jays whitey ford world series leave a comment joe dimaggio s second longest hitting streak at 70 years posted on july 17 2020 by rightoffthebatbook joe dimaggio barnstorms and instructs in japan following the 1950 world series as i evander write this on july 16 2020 it is 79 years since joe dimaggio s hitting streak reached its 56th and final game in the twilight of his proud career the clipper would enjoy his second longest consecutive game batting streak 19 games between september 7 1950 and september 26 1950 dimaggio collected 29 hits in 75 at bats that s a 387 accomplishment he had 8 home runs and drove in rbi 25 during this streak on september 11 he even hoisted three home runs into the distant left field bleachers of griffith stadium in his career dimaggio had hit three home runs in only two other games on june 13 1937 and on may 23 1948 this the first game of a doubleheader in cleveland two of the homers came off bob feller overall that 1950 season his last great one giuseppe led the american league with a 585 slugging percentage he walked 80 times that year an unusually high number for his career he had 32 home runs 122 rbi and a 301 batting average meanwhile an 18 year old slugger in class c ball joplin missouri presumably still learning to ply his trade at shortstop had 199 hits for a 383 batting average 26 homers and a 638 slugging percentage by 1951 and in right field not shortstop mickey mantle would join the american hero jd the greatest since lindbergh and ruth on the new york yankees as fate would have it during the world series that year in running for a fly ball off the bat of another new york rookie and great to be willie mays who uncharacteristically swung late mantle as dimaggio called him off the play caught his foot on the lip of a rubbery drain and popped a knee the injury itself was the true beginning of mantle s star crossed career my bad the great dimaggio had a 23 game hitting streak in 1940 thus we have an anniversary of 80 years as this blog was posted along with the 70 of its title now that i ve extended this essay i ll do so a little more the also great red smith equally at home at a cuppy racetrack or the baseball sward finished it all thus there were of course many others memorable and favorites not necessarily great indeed there was a longish period when my rapport with some who were less than great made me nervous maybe i was stuck on bad ballplayers i told myself not to worry some day there would be another joe dimaggio posted in baseball stadiums yankees tagged 56 game hitting streak american league babe ruth batting average bob feller cleveland indians griffith stadium joe dimaggio mickey mantle new york yankees slugging percentage leave a comment babe ruth had the spanish flu twice in 1918 posted on june 11 2020 by rightoffthebatbook the magazine everyone in the us once read identifies hemingway and ruth as two of the most important americans of the preceding century my evander s old friend and longtime supporter of the right off the bat project mike katzmarek reported a story he d heard on a french radio broadcast that started me on the slightly scattered subjects of this blog thanks also go to the late professor peter l hays for his singular knowledge of all things hemingway any errors of fact or logic or proportion or lapses in taste in the following conspectus are emphatically solely my own nineteen eighteen is one of those big news years getting into the action early ernest hemingway as yet too unworldly for fame sailed from new york to europe on may 11 by july he was injured by mortar fire in italy a bogus letter see the link four paragraphs below from f scott fitzgerald claims hemingway was too macho to quarantine ...