Los Angeles — Alonso’s house He was at the visitor club at Truist Park in Atlanta last week when an attendee made a baffling request: Will New York Mets driver take a call from Atlanta Braves captain Brian Snitker?
“Why is the rival manager calling me?” Remember Alonso’s thinking.
Find out quickly. Snitker was preparing to manage the National League All-Star team and had an important question, based on a first-time rule change amicable.
If the score were even after nine rounds of Tuesday night’s All-Star Game at Dodger Stadium, Snecker wondered, would Alonso take part in the new tie-breaking derby that will determine the winning team?
“I’ll be your man,” Alonso remembers. “I think it’s fun. I think it would be great if that happened.”
Alonso was unaware of the new format, with three players from each league taking three flips each to determine the final score. He was not alone in discovering what might be on board.
“Will this really happen?” Yankees Slugger Giancarlo Stanton He said. “This is the news for me.”
Snitker also chose Atlanta Ronald Akuna Jr.. and Philadelphia Kyle Schwarber for NL, while Dusty Baker from Houston chose Seattle Julio Rodriguez And the Ty France Together with Houston Kyle Tucker for AL.
With the Home Run Derby always popular the night before the game, Major League Baseball decided to make the running show a part of the Midsummer Classic.
Undoubtedly, many fans will now be looking for a tie, only to witness another launch of the long ball.
players too.
“Do they do that? That would be fun,” the first policeman of the Dodgers Freddy Freeman He said. “We got Alonso and Ronald’s house, so I liked our chances.”
The ruling paving the way for innovation was buried in Exposition 13 of the MoU that sealed MLB’s March 10 shutdown.
Alonso has 24 runs at home, third in the NL, and won the Home Run Derby twice in a row in Monday’s competition.
The tie-breaker rules, obtained by the Associated Press on Monday, state that “the manager of each All-Star team in the league must select three players from his team’s active list who have agreed to participate in the All-Star, if applicable; one player a substitute from his active roster who has agreed to participate in the All-Star tie-break, if necessary due to a tie-break selection injury; the All-Star coach who will throw a batting drill during the All-Star tie-break; and the All-Bulls-star catcher who will pick up during the tie-break all Stars “.
Play will be paused briefly after the ninth game to “allow the ground staff to reconfigure the field in an arrangement appropriate to break the tie”.
In a tiebreak, “each player may take an unlimited number of pitches without counting them against his total swing. Players on each team may strike in any order during the tiebreak all-stars; provided, however, that the hitters of each team must alternate.” “
As the visiting team, AL will send a batsman first, and alternate players from each league.
The rules state that “once all six playoff picks have completed their swing, the team with the most home hits will be the winner of the All-Star Game.” “In the event that teams have the same number of home runs after a tiebreak, each manager must choose a tie-breaker to participate in another round in which each team’s tie-break selection takes three spins to break a tie. Header coordination will continue until a tie is broken.”
The three players selected by the league cannot be substituted to break a tie unless they are injured or to protect the player’s health.
The All-Star has gone to extra innings 13 times since it started in 1933. The last two times, she’s gone 10 runs in 2017 in Miami and 2018 in Washington. Teams short of bowlers became a problem as coaches tried to get the most bowlers in the game by the ninth inning, and the 2002 game at Milwaukee ended in a 7-7, 11-game draw when there were no bowlers available.
Two years ago, the MLB was set to try the auto sprinter at second base if the All-Star game went into additional innings.
Thanks to Snitker, Alonso was ready to swing in a new way to determine who would win the All-Star Game.
“He had to tell me about things at Derby Home Run, because I didn’t know about them,” Alonso said.
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