Times wires
Friday, June 17, 2011
OMAHA, Neb. — As the College World Series opens today at new TD Ameritrade Park after 61 years at Rosenblatt Stadium, fans may need to brace for another possible change: a lot less offense.
Offensive numbers are down in baseball because of new bat standards that went into effect this season.
According to Division I statistics through the end of the regular season May 22, the overall team batting average dropped from .305 last season to .282. Home runs were nearly cut in half, from an average of 0.93 a game to 0.52, and scoring average was down from 7.01 runs a game to 5.62. Team ERAs went from 5.97 to 4.70, and 886 shutouts were pitched, up from 525 a year ago.
The new metal bats must meet a standard — the Ball-Bat Coefficient of Restitution — and are designed to lower ball speeds off the bat. The change was made to make the game safer and to tone down a game that had become overly offensive.
Bowl schedule: Football's bowl schedule features 35 games over 23 days next season, starting Dec. 17 and ending with the BCS title game Jan. 9 in New Orleans. No games will be played on traditional bowl date Jan. 1 because it falls on a Sunday, when the NFL plays a full schedule to close its regular season.
basketball: It's all but certain the Michigan State-North Carolina men's game on Veterans Day will be played aboard the USS Carl Vinson, the aircraft carrier that carried Osama bin Laden's body to a burial at sea, organizers said. The carrier, back from deployment, is in Coronado, Calif., near San Diego.
Source: http://www.tampabay.com/sports/bat-change-tames-offensive-numbers/1176011
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