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.
HR Derby, not extra innings will decide Pioneer League games
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SPOKANE, Wash. The Pioneer Baseball League today announced exciting new rules changes in effect for the 2021 season, as follows: · To avoid the excessive strain on our pitching staffs, the Pioneer Baseball League will not have extra innings, but rather will employ a first-of-its-kind “Knock Out” rule that
SPOKANE, Wash. The Pioneer Baseball League today announced exciting new rules changes in effect for the 2021 season, as follows:
· To avoid the excessive strain on our pitching staffs, the Pioneer Baseball League will not have extra innings, but rather will employ a first-of-its-kind “Knock Out” rule that resolves tied games with a head-to-head, “sudden death” home run duel. Under the rule, each team designates a hitter who receives 5 pitches, with the game determined by the most home runs hit. If still tied after the first “Knock Out” round, another hitter is selected for a sudden-death home run face-off until a winner is
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SPOKANE, Wash. The Pioneer League is replacing extra innings with a tiebreaking home run derby.
The independent partner league of Major League Baseball said Tuesday that tied games this season will be decided by each team designating a batter who will receive five pitches, and the team hitting the most long balls during the derby will receive the win. If the derby is tied after five swings each, another hitter will be selected for a sudden-death derby round.
The league said the rule is designed “to avoid the excessive strain on our pitching staffs.”
While Major League Baseball is behind experimental rule changes in the independent Atlantic League, it is not involved in the Pioneer League changes.
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