The new 60 game MLB season is something that all baseball fans will learn to accept and eventually enjoy. Obviously, its not close to ideal but at least we will most likely be seeing baseball in 2020 thanks to this 60 game proposal that was accepted by both the owners and the players association. However, part of this proposal is a few rule changes for this season that could have a huge impact on a very very small group of players if any. This group of players are the Perfect Game throwing pitchers. Over the course of 127 seasons of the MLB there have only been 23 perfect games which makes it an extremely exclusive club and a club that rarely adds new members. So the odds that there is a perfect game in any season is slim and now since this is a 60 game season, the odds drop even lower. However, it is still possible to pitch a perfect game in 2020. The only exception is that you can now throw a perfect game and lose. Let me explain. A new rule change for 2020 is that starting in the tenth inning a runner will begin on second base at the beginning of each inning. While this sounds like a new fun rule that can make extra innings less boring, there are drastic impacts to pitchers. Lets say a pitcher is throwing a perfect game through 9 innings and the score is 0-0. If a runner starts on second, this means that there can be two pop outs in a row in which the runner tags up from second to third and then third to home and the score would be 1-0. The pitcher would still be throwing a perfect game, retiring every batter he faced, yet he will be losing 1-0. This means that this pitcher could throw a perfect game and still lose which is something that was never possible in the MLB before 2020. So what are the odds we see this happening? Extremely low. But I want this to happen so bad. It would just show how messed up the MLB is. Thank you for your time.
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