Most of us will agree that the latter sentence has more pep. Because the verb pulls makes us perceive movement. Our mind's eye is attracted to movement just as much as our physical eyes. You go to watch the action on the field. Action, not inaction, is what captures our attention.
Passive voice can turn a good yarn into a dull parade of words.
Not only can passive voice obscure the real doer in a sentence, but it can also make those sentences long and awkward and tiresome to read. I see this happen time and time again in the works of novice writers. A story recently submitted to my writer's group had loads of conflict and suspense, but I had to prop my eyelids up with toothpicks in order to read it. The passive voice ran rampant throughout the prose. Probably because it is much easier to write in the passive voice.