Baseball purists pooh-pooh these changes, but as far as I’m concerned, they’ve made the game exciting. The pitch clock? Love it! It’s shortened games and ended the interminable at-bats that ...
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When baseball historian Bill Humber first heard about the golden at-bat idea that Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred floated on a recent podcast, he was a little taken aback.
How unforgettable was the final at-bat of the 2023 World Baseball Classic, Mike Trout versus Shohei Ohtani? They made for mesmerizing baseball theater, right? So if you were designing the sport ...
This is the Rob Manfred era in Major League Baseball. And as such ... That’s the “Golden At-Bat,” a colloquialism that seems to have taken hold even if the rule change bearing that label ...
Then Dave Roberts plays his golden at-bat card, and you have to face the best hitter in baseball all over again. Or, say, you're facing the Yankees and load the bases against the Nos. 5 ...
Major League Baseball is floating around a new rule, and it's been met with widespread criticism. Commissioner Rob Manfred said there is "a little buzz" about a "golden at-bat," where each team ...
And hoo boy, is this one a doozy. If the Golden At-Bat sounds familiar, it's probably because you've heard of the Savannah Bananas and how they play baseball. For anyone who's not familiar ...
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The possibility of Major League Baseball implementing the Golden At-Bat has become a topic of conversation recently after Manfred said on a podcast just before the World Series that "there was a ...