Here are three thoughts after Wednesday night’s ALCS Game 4 at Houston’s Minute Maid Park, in which the Red Sox beat the Astros 8-6 to take a three games to one lead.
We came for a baseball game, and we got a psychological test
Major League Baseball’s 2018 official rules book runs 169 pages long. Early on Wednesday night, all attention was focused on page 67, which contains Rule 6.01(e): Spectator Interference, along with an explanatory comment. The comment reads:
There is a difference between a ball which has been thrown or batted into the stands, touching a spectator thereby being out of play even though it rebounds onto the field and a spectator going onto the field or reaching over, under or through a barrier and touching a ball in play or touching or otherwise interfering with a player.