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Originally Posted by jg2977
Batters need to spend more time in the cages! And lower the mound.  |
The key to making baseball more exciting would be to go to 3 balls and 2 strikes... the pitchers would have to throw it over the plate and the batter would have to swing at it... no more wasting pitches and no more driving up the pitch count... this would cut 45 minutes to an hour off a game and increase the action.
This works well in slow pitch softball... we used to play on a 1 hour and 10 minutes time limit... using 3 balls and 2 strikes with a third strike on a 2-strike foul ball.
Prior to the new rule we could only play 5 innings...rarely played 7 innings... afterwards we always played 7, sometimes even 8 or 9 in extra innings.