I’d love to say the Rangers’ 6-5 extra-inning win over the Yankees last night (or this morning) was exciting and dramatic -- and it certainly had its moments -- but unfortunately the five-hour, 12-minute marathon was completely dominated by pitching changes. The two teams combined to set an American League record by using 19 pitchers. The Rangers established a new franchise record by using 11 of them.
This morning, Peter Gammons said it best when he tweeted:
There’s an easy way to fix this. Simply determine the maximum amount of players allowed to be active for a September game. 25? 30? Whatever. Just pick a number. Not only is it the fair way to do things, but it will also ensure that we won’t have to sit through a repeat of the ridiculousness that we just witnessed.
