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"This was an extremely long game, 18 innings. A lot of pitchers were used. Every position player was used. Injuries on both sides. Their guys are banged up, our guys are banged up."

"It's one of those things when you're able to come out on top from a game like this, you have to feel it gives you a little momentum going to the next one."

Said Max Muncy, who hit the home run that ended the 18-inning World Series game last night. It was the longest post-season game in baseball history. Now, the series is 2-1 and not 3-0, a big deal, considering that "No team has ever come back from a 3-0 hole in a World Series."

In other baseball news, the Wall Street Journal has a no-pay-wall article, "Our Insane Ideas to Save Baseball/Baseball has problems. There aren’t enough hits. There are too many pitchers. The games take too long. So we bullpenned our solutions. Are you ready for Strike Four?" Too long, indeed. And that article was published before the 18-inning World Series game.

And the NYT has a big article on the checked swing: "Baseball Has a Rorschach Test: The Checked Swing/Did the batter hold up in time? Did he actually swing and miss? It depends on your point of view. Well, actually it depends on the umpire’s point of view."

The Major League Baseball rule book does address swings, although the guidance it offers is limited. In the “Definitions and Terms” section, it states that a strike occurs when the pitch “is struck at by the batter and is missed.” But it does not say how far the bat must go to be called a swing....

A.J. Hinch, the manager of the Houston Astros, said... "It’s break the wrist... It’s break the plane of the plate with the bat. Did the bat head come forward?’’

[Boston’s designated hitter, J.D. Martinez], in turn, offered his own interpretation. “Did the bat break the plane of the plate?’’ he said. “Was there intent to hit the ball? To me, if the head of the bat gets in front of the wrists, then you swung."

“You have to determine whether he offered at the pitch,’’ [said veteran umpire Joe West], in reference to the batter. “Or did he actually hold the bat up.”

West’s use of the word “offer” was hardly arbitrary. It comes directly from Rule 5.01(c), which states: “The pitcher shall deliver the pitch to the batter who may elect to strike the ball, or who may not offer at it, as he chooses.’’

So the rule makes it subjective and requires inquiry into the mind of the batter. That's how West explains it: "That’s why it’s so difficult. It’s subjective. Each swing is different, each checked swing is different." It's not a specific thing done by the bat but what the batter thought he was doing. Can you change your mind in the process and revoke the offer? It makes me want to think of contract law, but if the swinging is offering, you could revoke the offer up until there's an acceptance, but what's the acceptance — something the ball is doing? It seems more like the pitch is the offer and the batter is the one in a position to accept, but that's not how the baseball rule is written, with that "offer at" language.

"Offer at" feels alien to me, a native speaker of English. The OED defines it as "To make an attempt at or upon; to aim at" and deems it obsolete. I have read it at least once, since I've read "Bleak House," — Dickens, 1853 — which contains the line, "There ain't no danger, gentlefolks..she'd [sc. a cat] never offer at the birds when I was here, unless I told her to it." That sounds like dialect, paired with that "told her to it."

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