I prefer a pitchers’ duel to a slugfest, every pitch matters.
I’m right there with you, but a lot of low scoring games now aren’t necessarily indicative of absolute pitching skill. It’s that the majority of hitters now just don’t cut down on their swing with two strikes and also don’t try to put the ball in play early in the count as walks are valued more today than they used to be. Strike outs are at an all time high. Combine that with the best and most used relief pitching ever, and you get low scoring long games with lots of strike outs.
Usually the lowest common denominator fan thinks that scoring = excitement. It worked for the NFL, at least if the measure is pure popularity among the masses. Maybe the solution for MLB is just count every run as 6 runs, ha ha.
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