Baseball players and owners are locked in a bitter dispute over how to start a season amid the coronavirus pandemic.
FILE - In this Sept. 7, 2019, file photo, fans cheer as Milwaukee Brewers' Christian Yelich walks off the field after driving in the winning run with a double during the ninth inning of the team's baseball game against the Chicago Cubs in Milwaukee. Major League Baseball players and owners are currently caught in a bitter dispute over how to start amid the coronavirus pandemic. Both sides occasionally mention fans, talking about doing right by them.
Both sides occasionally mention fans, talking about doing right by them. But apart from taking sides, how do the fans feel — would they consider a severely shortened schedule legit? “I think any rate-based stat record — batting average, ERA — would have to be considered an anomaly,” Oakland fan Adam Brooks said.
“If a player hits three home runs or the cycle in a single game, I would count that in their personal stats without an asterisk,” she said. No one disputes the Los Angeles Dodgers' title in 1981 during a strike-split season in which every team played over 100 games. And there's no debate about the third of four straight NL Cy Young Awards won by Greg Maddux in a 1994 season ended in August by a players' strike.
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