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I came across this story<\/a> about how the Frontier League (independent) is going to explore with an idea labeled as \u201csudden death\u201d in games that exceed ten innings; presumably to eliminate the idea of long, drawn-out extra-inning games.\u00a0 Usually, I\u2019m pretty resistant to change, but as far as this idea is concerned, I absolutely love it, and would love to see it in action.<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019ve actually been to a Frontier League game.\u00a0 There\u2019s a team just outside of St. Louis, technically in Illinois, despite the fact that the town is just called East St. Louis.\u00a0 My friend and I went to a Cardinals game in the afternoon, and we realized that we had the time to get across the bridge and catch a Gateway Grizzlies game.\u00a0 It also didn\u2019t hurt that Man v. Food<\/em> labeled their ballpark\u2019s nachos as the best nachos in baseball, which we were very intrigued at putting to the test.<\/span><\/p>\n The nachos were a bust and Adam Richman\u2019s opinions are shit, but we did enjoy being out at a Frontier League game.\u00a0 So knowing the level of talent and the fact that they\u2019re not affiliated with MLB, the sudden death baseball experiment should be pretty interesting.<\/span><\/p>\n Long story short: games that exceed ten innings go into sudden death.\u00a0 Home team chooses whether they want to hit or pitch.\u00a0 If hitting, they start with a runner on third base.\u00a0 They have three outs to bring that guy home by any means necessary.\u00a0 If they don\u2019t?\u00a0 The team pitching automatically wins.\u00a0 Game over.\u00a0 No 11th<\/sup>, 12th<\/sup>, 16th<\/sup> or 18th<\/sup> innings.\u00a0 Nobody has to worry about games ending at 1 am or beyond anymore.<\/span><\/p>\n And I am all about this idea.\u00a0 Not that I mind extra-inning games, but there have also been plenty of times where extra-inning games end up feeling like a chore, and I wished it were over three hours ago, after the first three hours of the original nine innings.<\/span><\/p>\n But it opens the door to so much new strategy and scenarios for excitement, that I have to be optimistic about this.\u00a0 It\u2019s kind of got that college football overtime feeling to it, except the fact that there is no opportunity to match, it\u2019s just an instantaneous decision.<\/span><\/p>\n Like, if a team has their best hitters coming up, they absolutely should decide to hit.\u00a0 Conversely, if a team sniffs out the possibility of sudden death, they might choose to hold back their closer or general bullpen ace(s) in order to prepare to pitch.\u00a0 Or a team that is put in the position to pitch switches pitchers every single batter in order to play the splits.<\/span><\/p>\n More likely than not, a team will probably opt to hit, because three shots to put the ball in play seems a little too favorable.\u00a0 I almost think the rule should start with one out, instead of none, but I get that it should be \u201ca full inning.\u201d\u00a0 But there\u2019s still all sorts of holes in the idea, like what if the guy on third gets gunned down at the plate, but there aren\u2019t three outs \u2013 does the sudden death resume with presumably the next guy on base, having to try and win hard mode from first?<\/span><\/p>\n Either way, I love the idea.\u00a0 MLB will undoubtedly be watching, because even when they\u2019re not in loose cahoots with Indy leagues, they\u2019re more than happy to steal great ideas and implement them themselves.\u00a0 And if it goes well in the Frontier League, than I\u2019d expect to see it start popping up in MLB, even if it starts in the minor leagues first.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I came across this story about how the Frontier League (independent) is going to explore with an idea labeled as \u201csudden death\u201d in games that exceed ten innings; presumably to eliminate the idea of long, drawn-out extra-inning games.\u00a0 Usually, I\u2019m pretty resistant to change, but as far as this idea is concerned, I absolutely love … Continue reading I would be all for sudden death baseball<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[62,56,76,83,65],"class_list":["post-48421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-baseball","tag-food","tag-geeks","tag-observations","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48423,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48421\/revisions\/48423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}