Leave it to Madison Bumgarner to put the new pace-of-play rules in perspective.
“We’ll find a way to combat these rules,” the Giants’ pitcher said Tuesday, “and figure out this new game of baseball we’re playing.”
A day after Major League Baseball announced mound visits will be limited to six in a nine-inning game and inning breaks and pitching changes will be quicker, the players’ reaction continued to be wide-ranging.
Commissioner Rob Manfred, at a news conference in Glendale, Ariz., proclaimed that “pace of game is a fan issue,” based on research conducted by MLB and its broadcast partners.