Rule Changes In Major League Baseball

Ardoldis Chapman, a “closer” pitcher for the New York Yankees was suspended and fined under the baseball’s new domestic violence policy. Chapman was said to have gotten into an argument with his girlfriend in October 2015. It then escalated to Chapman aiming a fire arm at her as she ran into the woods on a neighbor’s property. However, no charges were filed against Chapman. He has made history as the first baseball player to be suspended and fined under the baseball’s new domestic violence policy.

The play at the plate, was a bang-bang play that saw Townsend slide into the plate and the ball arrived at catcher Jonah

Bautista, who was struck by a pitch from the Rangers Matt Bush at the beginning of the inning, was at the middle of the fight after his aggressive slide into Odor at second base on a double-play ball off the bat of

The suspension stems from an incident on June 13th, when the Dodgers and Indians clashed at Progressive Field. Following his own two-run home run in the second inning, Puig threw up both middle fingers at some hecklers behind home plate. Unsurprisingly, the broadcast caught Puig’s actions on camera, and it immediately became a major headline.

“I don’t try to hit home runs. That’s not my game,” Rivera, who leads the team with six home runs, said. “He just threw me a changeup up and I hit it.”

During the last game of baseball in Phippsburg, Turner was up to bat. He set his feet and readied himself for all the pitches that came his way from Willis. He hit each ball out of the field but they were all fouls. Then the last ball was pitched. Everyone was expecting him to hit it but he stepped back from the plate and took the last strike. Turner knew he could hit the ball and probably could have

Hitters are not getting hits they would normally get because of it. The All-Star first baseman for the Cincinnati Reds, Joey Votto said, ”The Pirates have always shifted heavily. There’s been numerous occasions… when I’ve hit to left field, and down the left-field line… those [batted balls], which are usually hits, have been outs against the Pirates. They are taking away hits.” (Sawchick 110). Analytics such as statcast, have lead to a huge reform in the way the game is played. Do to this, teams are implementing more and more defensive shifting.

Machado's momentum carried him past the base and he collided with Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia, injuring Pedroia's ankle and forcing him out of the game and the remainder of the series. The collision was questionable, but it didn't seem intentional, especially since Machado immediately tried to help Pedroia up in a compassionate gesture.

It is now that last play of the game there are already two outs there is a player on the third base, the batter hits the ball ball with all his strength, the player from third is trying to make it to home plate as fast as he possibly can. The right fielder then throws the ball into the catcher's glove, the catcher touches the runner and... "YOU'RE OUT!" The game is over. Even though the entire stadium crowd and the ones watching the game live on T.V knew the runner was safe, he is still out the game is over. Now this could have been the winning run, but because of the blown call, the entire season had gone on for nothing. This problem could have been easily debated or fixed with the

The Athletic Base Ball Club of Philadelphia (ABBCP) is trying to bring people back to a simpler time using the game of baseball. This idea was strongly hit home in the story “Wanna Play Ball Like Your Great-Great Grandfather?” The ABBCP desires to recreate 19th century baseball today with historically accurate uniforms, 1800s rules, and equipment from the past. This major accomplishment in bringing back this generation is mostly due to their vintage rule set. In the story they explain that the ABBCP uses a 19th century rulebook with slight modifications, which was done to generate an atmosphere similar to that of their era, while still fitting with our century. This idea was elaborated upon in the story as, “Those bylaws were frequently

A suspension from an entire season and thousands of dollars of fine were issued and that seemed light with talks of being banned from baseball floating between the two parties. Major League Baseball took the right direction in the situation making an example of this group of players and especially Rodriguez (Quinn, Fish, and Gomez). This no tolerance policy could hopefully put a stop to the use of steroid in this great sport and get the game back to its original form.

Every year, it becomes more obvious that many sports in America have problems. For years, Hockey has been criticized for its excessive violence. The National Football League has also been scrutinized for this reason as well as the fact that many of the top players have constantly been in trouble with the law. Major League Baseball is no different. The situation with baseball is more complicated, and is not only ruining the game itself, but also drawing millions of fans away from the sport. The biggest problem is with the high salaries paid to athletes. These salaries are taking the competitiveness out of several sports, especially baseball, where there is no salary cap. Action must be taken

“Charles Finley, owner of the World champion Oakland Athletics, was fined $7,000 and put on probation mid-way through the World Series. Second baseman Mike Andrews played poorly in the second game of the Series. The Mets had won the game in the 12th inning, after Andrews committed two errors, scoring four runs. In his anger, Finley attempted to place Andrews on the disabled list, saying he had a sore shoulder, and Andrews signed an agreement. Commissioner Bowie Kuhn did not allow Andrews to be placed on the disabled list, and fined Finley for three reasons” (1970s Sports History).

they would be tagging them with the ball. The rule of forcing a player out at a base was also introduced in 1854. Finally, other

The rules of baseball though still received it changes to the games as the years past including Cartwright who made the foul lines and the rule that if the ball is caught flying or on the first bound is out. And the ball was not to be thrown at a player for an out and no base running on fouls. As the years went by base has had many rules that have been added and taken away to make it a better game to suit everyone regardless of race, sex, or creed. But baseball has and will always been known as created by Abner Doubleday even thought he didn’t invent the games but he started the game to were its at today.