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Quoted from jar155:World Series ball on the right, regular season ball on the left.
Story on the different balls: https://www.si.com/mlb/2017/10/29/world-series-baseballs-leather-justin-verlander-yu-darvish-ken-giles-kenley-jansen
Ball looks the same to me. Let you know for sure tomorrow night.
Quoted from jar155:Is this really a hard concept, or am I going crazy?
ONE TEAM'S ADVANTAGE WAS HITTING. THE OTHER TEAM'S ADVANTAGE WAS PITCHING. GO LOOK AT EVERY PREVIEW ARTICLE WRITTEN. IT WAS "THE DODGERS' ARMS VS. THE ASTROS' SLUGGERS." THEY ARE USING A BALL THAT IS HITTER-FRIENDLY. THAT PLAYS TO ONE TEAM'S STRENGTH AND AWAY FROM ANOTHER TEAM'S STRENGTH.
Holy smokes.
You haven't thought this all the way through. The Astro pitchers threw curve and breaking balls too.
Quoted from jar155:Wow, really?
The Astros' strength was not their bullpen, so what does it matter if they're a little worse? They weren't built around their bullpen anyway. The Dodgers were constructed in a manner that was 100% about getting 5 innings deep with a lead and then letting their bullpen take over while they put up runs on the other team's inferior bullpen. Well what good does that do them now if no matter who has the ball, they're going to struggle for either team? They leveled the pitching advantage, and the Astros already had superior hitters coming in. They took pitching out of the game and turned it into a slugfest. It's really, really, really sketchy to change a variable midway through a season and even worse to do it right at the finish line. Teams can't change who they are at this point.
Did anybody even read the article SI put out? You guys really think that Kenly Jansen went from unhittable to terrible? Darvish had the worst outing of his career and measurements showed that his pitches had dramatically less movement on their breaks. Kershaw is having the lowest swing and miss rate of his entire career on his breaking balls. The pitches aren't breaking, they're staying flat. This affects the Dodgers far more than the Astros.
By the way, curveballs aren't as affected as sliders and cutters because you grip the seams. It's probably why Rich Hill was surprisingly able to hang with Verlander in game 2. But that's a different point.
So game 6 ls over. You still sure the ball makes that much of a difference. I don't as the pitchers seem not too....with respect.
Looks like the Dodgers slept in their own beds, were in there own stadium, in front of their own crowd, and had control of their emotions ..... and therefore the BALL.
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