All-Star Game tied? Home run derby to settle it

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

Among the items buried in the new CBA is a clause allowing a tied All-Star Game to be determined by a home run derby.



https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/33479323/memo-indictates-home-run-derby-decide-all-star-game-winner-extra-inningshttps://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/33479323/memo-indictates-home-run-derby-decide-all-star-game-winner-extra-innings

[Edgy MD]

So the players lifted after the third inning can't start pounding beer in the clubhouse, lest they be need in extra time.



The sad part is that it's a tacit acknowledgment that the derby is a preferable exhibition to actually playing the game the way All-Star Games are played.

[RealityChuck]

I thought they should have done that in 2002, setting up something ad hoc.

[Willets Point]

Okay but the home run derby contestants have to face the best available pitcher from the opposing team. And they can strikeout.

[Double Switch]

To placate the NL, the HR tie-breaking derby should be pitchers v. pitchers.

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... whoever gets an actual base hit wins the game.

[Edgy MD]

Willets Point wrote: Okay but the home run derby contestants have to face the best available pitcher from the opposing team. And they can strikeout.

Sounds a lot like the All-Star Game.

[Willets Point]

Edgy MD wrote: Willets Point wrote: Okay but the home run derby contestants have to face the best available pitcher from the opposing team. And they can strikeout. Sounds a lot like the All-Star Game.

Exactamundo!