It’s March! Spring training has begun! If you followed along to Sunday’s game you might have noticed something strange happening in the bottom of the first. It just…ended?
The new spring training rules announcement by the league last Friday flew a little under the radar.
Basically, all games through March 13th will have a few different rule changes. Games can be shortened to up to five innings upon mutual manager agreement. The three-batter minimum for a pitcher won’t be enforced. And the most game altering rule, which we saw early in the game yesterday, was the defensive manager having the ability to end an inning before getting three outs if the pitcher has thrown at least 20 pitches.