Uh oh the Baseball Mafia that thinks the sport is better than ever (your typical millennial beat reporter who grew up on Bonds) won’t like this!
For 3 hours 54 minutes, the Padres and Dodgers … well, they mostly did nothing besides toss the ball back and forth between the pitchers and catchers, then every few minutes swap the pitcher out for a fresh one. The Dodgers won, 5-1, in what felt more like a battle of attrition than an athletic contest.
By comparison, Game 4 of the NBA Finals between the Los Angeles Lakers and Miami Heat started about a half-hour earlier than the Dodgers-Padres game, and finished at 11:39 p.m., when the baseball game was still in the sixth inning. The basketball game, completed in a sparkling 2 hours 29 minutes, could have tipped off at 11 p.m. sharp and still beat the baseball game to the finish line. (via Washington Post)
The article goes on to detail all the inaction.
