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Post by knowlto on Nov 16, 2017 16:42:48 GMT
What about this idea: let the pitchers pitch as soon as they get the ball, whether the batter is ready or not?
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Post by klawrencio79 on Nov 16, 2017 16:55:28 GMT
Sept. 28, 1919, New York Giants vs Philadelphia Phillies in the Polo Grounds. Behind pitcher Jesse Barnes, the Giants won 6-1. Barnes threw a complete game, striking out two and walking none. Phillies pitcher Lee Meadows also threw a complete game and took the loss. George "High Pockets" Kelly had three hits for the Giants and scored once. Time of the game: 51 minutes. One of the biggest changes between the game of yesteryear and the game today is that today batters go up there with the idea of working the count. 100 years ago, guys went up there for one reason and one reason only - to put the ball in play. Not necessarily swinging for power either, just putting the ball in play. The game you referenced above featured a total of 3 walks and 3 strikeouts. Innings back then are much faster because pitchers were only throwing a couple of pitches, at most, to each hitter. Baseball reference doesn't have pitch counts for games going that far back (WTF baseball reference?!) but I'd be curious to see what it was. Now granted that's not going to account for a 2-hour difference in the length of the game unto itself but still, you're cutting the number of pitches down drastically which will definitely hasten the speed of the game. The other thing is that nowadays you have mandatory 3 minute stoppages between innings for commercial breaks. That's nearly an extra half hour just for time spent for one team getting off the field and the other one getting on. 100 years ago, after the 3rd out was recorded one team left the field, the other one came on and away they went with the next inning. There were advertisements within the stadium made by the announcers but they weren't having Toyota, Pepsi and FedEx commercials between every half inning. |
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Post by NJtoTX on Nov 16, 2017 17:14:29 GMT
Sept. 28, 1919, New York Giants vs Philadelphia Phillies in the Polo Grounds. Behind pitcher Jesse Barnes, the Giants won 6-1. Barnes threw a complete game, striking out two and walking none. Phillies pitcher Lee Meadows also threw a complete game and took the loss. George "High Pockets" Kelly had three hits for the Giants and scored once. Time of the game: 51 minutes. One of the biggest changes between the game of yesteryear and the game today is that today batters go up there with the idea of working the count. 100 years ago, guys went up there for one reason and one reason only - to put the ball in play. Not necessarily swinging for power either, just putting the ball in play. The game you referenced above featured a total of 3 walks and 3 strikeouts. Innings back then are much faster because pitchers were only throwing a couple of pitches, at most, to each hitter. Baseball reference doesn't have pitch counts for games going that far back (WTF baseball reference?!) but I'd be curious to see what it was. Now granted that's not going to account for a 2-hour difference in the length of the game unto itself but still, you're cutting the number of pitches down drastically which will definitely hasten the speed of the game. The other thing is that nowadays you have mandatory 3 minute stoppages between innings for commercial breaks. That's nearly an extra half hour just for time spent for one team getting off the field and the other one getting on. 100 years ago, after the 3rd out was recorded one team left the field, the other one came on and away they went with the next inning. There were advertisements within the stadium made by the announcers but they weren't having Toyota, Pepsi and FedEx commercials between every half inning. Mostly complete games, so that saves time. Bet they didn't allow the 8 warmup pitches for relievers back then, either. Off topic - wonder when someone first figured out you could start the runners on 3-2 with 2 outs. |
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