It’s going to be the hot topic of the season all year long. Last year, it was foreign substances for pitchers after MLB cracked down. But this year, it’s about how different the baseballs are, and what that has done to the offense. Dodgers players can certainly attest to that this early in the season.
Far too many times this season, Dodgers fans have watched hard-hit balls that would have been long gone the last few years fall at the warning track. Sometimes they don’t even make it that far. But Cody Bellinger’s ball last night was just ridiculous.