For anyone wishing to sign a petition to Commissioner Rob Manfred banning noon EDT/11 a.m. CDT game times on Saturdays, please let me know.
That extraordinary game time was in effect Saturday at Nationals Park, where players on both teams were groggy from the three-hour game Friday that ended after 10 p.m.
Throw in postgame meals, showers and buses to the hotel, and the earliest any Texas Rangers player fell asleep was midnight. The same holds roughly holds true for the Washington Nationals.
There is a reason for the early start: The Nationals scheduled their annual fund-raising gala for Saturday night.