Put him on base. Let him get a single, St. Louis loses. You can't rely on one guy. A lot of that is the home runs. Sure the new baseball is as hard and as tightly wound as the Titleist Tiger Woods plays.
New stadiums keep getting smaller.
Bulked-up batters wearing so much body armor stand on top of the plate, unconcerned about being hit by a pitch. No matter, pitchers won't throw inside anyway. Umpires won't call belt-high strikes. And expansion has watered down pitching drastically. Orioles pitcher Mike Mussina thinks this is the way the owners want it.