How weird is televised baseball in the age of coronavirus? At the top of Friday night’s Giants-Dodgers game in Los Angeles, play-by-play man Duane Kuiper let viewers know that he and on-air partner Mike Krukow had taken social distancing to the extreme.
“We are in San Francisco,” he said, “in our comfortable booths at Oracle Park.”
Welcome to baseball’s new normal — masked men in the dugout, cardboard cut-outs in the stands and TV commentators nowhere in the vicinity of the actual game.
After watch. . .