PHOENIX — The fourth game of the World Series should have come with a Halloween warning label: Excessive use of overmatched relief pitchers. May not be suitable for die-hard fans.
There were 11 hits by the winning team, 12 hits by the losing team, 13 pitchers overall — and it might have taken 14 hours, if not for the pitch clock.
That’s one modern innovation that kept the Texas Rangers’ 11-7 thumping of the Arizona Diamondbacks tolerable: It was over in under 200 minutes. Then again, so was “Waterworld,” and audiences didn’t go for that, either.