If a regulation game is terminated early due to weather and the game is either tied or in the midst of an inning in which the visiting team has taken the lead, it becomes a suspended game that will be completed at a later date from the point of termination.
If not terminated early, regulation games last until the trailing team has had the chance to make 27 outs nine innings. If the home team is leading after the visiting team has made three outs in the top of the ninth inning, the home team wins and does not have to come to bat in the bottom of the ninth.
If the game is tied after both teams have made 27 outs each, the game will go to extra innings. It will continue until the home team takes the lead at any point, or the visiting team takes the lead and the home team subsequently makes three outs without tying the game or going ahead. As far as the rest of the pitching staff goes, I envision a staff of five pitchers. The other two would specialists of some kind.
With one or two excellent starting pitchers and a couple of relievers, you have enough pitching I think. You would see much more managerial strategy in baseball than is used now. That would accomplish two things. But, more significantly, assuming rosters stay at 25, it would mean that managers would leave 20 everyday players to use. Think about that.
With that many players, a manager would have room on his roster for players of many different talents. You want a designated pinch runner. Heck, you can carry two. Go to the Olympics, get Usain Bolt. You want a designated bunter? You have room for defensive wizards and power-hitting slugs. You have room for pretty much any kind of ballplayer you would want. And then, because every game would be so important and every run would be so precious, you would have managers trying all sorts of crazy things to score runs.
Because they would HAVE to come up with new ways to score runs. You know the shifting defenses that are beginning to play a big role in the game. Managers and coaches would supersize them. They would play a different kind of shifting defense every game. There would be 20 different kinds of hit and run.
Base stealing would become a much bigger part of the game. Baseball would get its own Bill Walsh or Sid Gillman who would revolutionize offense. Baseball would get its own Buddy Ryan or Tom Landry who would revolutionize defense. Every play has its own special design.
Coaches are placed all over the field to make adjustments. Teams huddle up before every play to talk about what they will do next. If baseball was played only once a week, you better believe that managers and coaches would use every second of it to come up with ways to win. They say that breaking down the swing too much can mess with your mindset.
They say that breaking down the pitcher fills the mind with too many thoughts. Hitting is a natural act. They would not only break down pitchers to the nth power, they would break down each individual hitter. The other began that way and has been shoe-horned to continue to fit the changes in the structure of the leagues.
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