Of all the things Major League Baseball has proposed, plotted, and painstakingly planned to bring the game back online by July, perhaps the most striking visual will come a few days later, in the bottom of the ninth, maybe even in Dunedin, Fla., when a player drives a game-winning hit. He’ll walk-off alone.
There will be no rush to swarm the player, no high-fives, no hugs, no jugs of Gatorade to dump or dodge in celebration. The player will have to tear off his own jersey.
This past Friday, Major League Baseball delivered a plan for reopening to clubs and the same proposal to the players’ union.