GDT: 1/3 LA Angels @ Toronto Blue Jays (7:07pm est)

[Olerud363]

Why isn't conceding a game a thing in baseball? Is it really better to waste relievers and potentially get position players hurt in a blowout than just to offer up a handshake and say see you tomorrow?

 

Is there any additional punishment that baseball would give out for something like that? You may be potentially hurting your ability to win future games by selling out to a game that there's nothing left to play for.

 

Records like 6 hits, or 4 homers or 30 runs are all set in blow outs, so that would be the end of per game records.

 

Aaron Judge has 59 homers in game 159, due up in the bottom of the 8th, Yankees ahead 14-2, but guess what. Game over other team concedes.

 

OK. Maybe they wouldn't concede in game 159, but they might in game 59, and cost someone some stats in an historic year.

 

It would make records, not just per game, but per season a bit harder to challenge because inevitably some of 260 hits, or 62 (74) homers or 190 rbis are in blow outs.