Original sentence: Also, since a pitcher's typical offensive "contribution" is at best to advance the runner by sacrificing himself and at worst as a rally-killing double play, it improves the play of the game to remove an "easy out" player from the batting order.Attendance has suffered occasional short term declines during the time since the hitters began to dominate.For example, the Pacific Coast League, a historically hitter-dominated minor league, eventually adopted the Designated Hitter.Games played with the DH allow pitchers to play deeper into games than they otherwise might, by removing the manager's incentive to remove a pitcher from play in order to attain a short-term offensive advantage.However, anti-DH advocates argue squeeze plays, hit-and-runs and other strategies used to manufacture runs are more prevalent in the National League.However, the designated hitter encourages beanball wars by removing the pitcher from the batting order, where he might be subject to retaliation.In the perspective of Major League Baseball history, hitters have dominated the pitchers since the middle of the nineteen-nineties, even in the National League, which does not use the rule.It has proven to be an unpopular proposal.Rule Has Exceeded Original Scope.Rule Has Outlived Original Purpose.The adoption of the rule by the American League was preceded by a decade of domination by the Major League pitchers over the hitters, particulary in that league, and in spite of other rule changes to stimulate hitting.The domination of the pitchers over the hitters was perceived to be a major drag on attendance.The original reason for proposing and adopting the rule in the American League has long since been overcome by events.The rule was first adopted as an experiment by the American League, but has since been almost universally adopted throughout all of Organized Baseball, including by leagues that never experienced a perceived or real lack of offense.This is also the only baseball strategy removed by the addition of the designated hitter is the double switch; if anything, modern American League baseball with its array of specialist pitchers and batting styles is much more complex than baseball before 1973