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OGDEN It ll be a different season for the Ogden Raptors for many reasons this year after last season was canceled due to COVID-19.
Gone are the Los Angeles Dodgers affiliation and its place in the Minor League Baseball pipeline, and gone now are extra-inning contests at Lindquist Field.
The Pioneer Baseball League announced a handful of interesting new rules coming to the league this season; among them, abandoning extra-inning affairs and replacing it with knock out, which can best be described as a sudden death home run derby between teams until a winner is crowned that evening.
League officials said the move was made to avoid any excessive strain on Pioneer League teams pitching staffs.
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There’s nothing more American than baseball, apple pie and voter suppression.
All three have a rich and storied past in this country. Yet by taking a stand against voter suppression, baseball has incurred the wrath of Utah Sen. Mike Lee. (Apple pie, thus far, has been unscathed.)
Last month, Georgia enacted a series of election changes that, under any rational reading, will make it harder for residents in that state to vote.
In response, Major League Baseball pulled the July All-Star game from Atlanta, moving it instead to Colorado.
“Major League Baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box,” MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said.