Brewers @ Mets IGT 7/7/21 - Game 2

[Frayed Knot]

More than 1/5 of our games so far (18 of 83 = 21.7%) have been scheduled for 7 innings.

That overall percentage might go down as the season wears on but probably not by a lot; I believe we have opening week Covid makeups still to play.

Couple that with the virtual elimination of extra innings* and MLB has now managed to achieve the goal of MLB haters everywhere: Less Baseball!



I wonder if Ford or Kelloggs execs are sitting around wondering: 'We need to figure out a way to sell fewer cars/cereals'









* we've played nine extras in slightly over a half-season. This compares to 43 in 2019

[Fman99]

Edgy MD wrote: Swinging 2-0, down by five in the [CROSSOUT]ninth[/CROSSOUT] seventh. Makes me wanna file a suit.

GKR touched on this the other night during a Seth Lugo appearance. They quoted Seth as saying that 3/4 of MLB hitters are fairly easy to retire if he's able to locate his pitches, because those 75% of the batters are all swinging for the fences on every pitch.



That jives as true to me also. Applied to his own teammates as well, sadly.

[Lefty Specialist]

That inning where they loaded the bases with no out was typical of this. Lindor and Dom tried too hard to hit the grand slam with their swings, when a single would have been enormous.

[Benjamin Grimm]

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