On Sunday, the Denver Post published Mark Kiszla’s piece “How to take the boring out of baseball? More than rule tweaks are needed. Here’s a revolutionary idea.” After the usual proposals to make the designated hitter universal, expand the strike zone, and require pitchers to face at least three batters, Kiszla lays out his truly radical idea:
My modest proposal: Make it a seven-inning game. Replace the seventh-inning stretch with end-of-game drama. Now that’s one change that would really make every pitch and every at-bat count more.