Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
October 24, 2008
Different Fans

Randy Newsom blogs from Venezuela as he plays winter ball. Today he lists things you'll never see at a big league park:

Beers being sold for under a dollar (using the exchange rate).

Those same beers being thrown high into the air by fans when the wave comes around to their section.

Those same beers being thrown at the opposing team after they hit a three-run homer to break the game open in the eighth inning.

According to my father, he was at a game at Yankee Stadium in the early 1940s when the fans threw their beer bottles onto the field after a bad call by an umpire. It was after that incident that teams started selling beer in paper cups. (I can't confirm this story, but my dad has a very good memory.)

Newsom was also not watching the ALCS:

Four pitching changes in one half of an inning. (I actually saw this in Mexico last year, and I am sure it has happened at least once some where in the extended history of the Major Leagues.) I would love to know what the record for that is.

Joe Maddon did that in the eighth inning of game seven against the Red Sox.


Posted by David Pinto at 09:33 AM | International | TrackBack (0)
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Just doing a quick check...

In 2000, there were three ocuurances of a team usign FIVE pitchers in a half inning.

4/9/2000 Marlins-Rockies 8th inning
5/10/2000 Twins-Indians 7th inning
6/29/2000 Twins-Yankees 8th inning

Posted by: Eric at October 24, 2008 10:48 AM

If there was 1 rule change I'd make it would involve pitching changes. Either making guys pitch to 2 batters or only allowing 1 guy to pitch to 1 batter per inning or limiting the number of pitchers you could use in an inning.

Posted by: Bandit at October 24, 2008 01:50 PM
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