Source: thecomeback.com --- Sunday, October 15, 2017
Some Baseball debates are just as spirited as its games, and Game 1 of the NLCS between the Chicago Cubs and Los Angeles Dodgers was no exception. It’s no secret that MLB is ready and willing to make positive changes regarding the safety of fans and players. For fans, 14 teams — including the Reds, Padres, and Rockies — are all expanding their stadium netting . This will prevent fans, mainly small children, from getting injured by foul balls. For players, it’s not that black and white. Baseball was always associated with aggressive sliding collisions at home plate up until four years ago. Since 2014, Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association require catchers to have full possession of the ball before blocking home plate, in order to avoid horrendous collisions. This rule came into full effect on Saturday night in Los Angeles. A perfect throw from Kyle Schwarber and a beautiful tag by Willson Contreras made sure a sliding Charlie Culberson never even touched the plate. Still, the rule (and a replay review) deemed him safe. Contreras’ extended leg blocked Culberson’s lane. The sliding rule that changed four years ago due to catchers suffering “egregious” collisions at the plate, per MLB.com : A lot of people went ballistic over this play; mainly and deservedly Cubs skipper Joe Maddon after suffering a 5-2 NLCS opening night loss to the Dodgers, while getting ejected in the process. “I from day one hav ...
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