Cleveland — Cleveland Guardians catcher Austin Hedges probably spoke for every catcher in baseball, even Tigers catchers Tucker Barnhart and Eric Haase, when he emotionally decried how Major League Baseball is deploying the collision rule at home plate.
“It’s a play that’s been called a few times now recently that really has never been called before,” Hedges said after the Tigers’ 4-3 win over the Guardians Tuesday night. "For some reason, New York feels like they need to take over the game and change the way the game’s played.