Last night, Boston defeated the Yankees 8-5.
Game time: 3:38.
Somebody please tell me that’s good baseball for a prime time Sunday night game on ESPN. I’m sure somebody will, claiming I am off-base over my obsession with slow play in the game.
I tuned into the game at 9:30 Central (10:30 ET) with the intent of watching the conclusion. Trouble was, it only was the top of the sixth. Are you kidding? I bailed.
Here’s the link to the box score. Yankee pitchers gave up eight walks and both starters threw a ton of pitches without even making it to the sixth inning.
Sorry, that’s not the kind of baseball I want to watch. And I won’t.
You’re totally right. That’s why I don’t watch games start to finish. At some point — the saner me keeps saying — fans will stop going and the TV decision-makers will realize that more time lags for ever more commercials is not holding viewers’ attention. That today’s practices are not economically viable. This will happen. But I may have do my “Told you so” from St. Peter’s Heavenly Hotel.
Ed, you should’ve watched the first two games of the series, both of which ended in under three hours.