The coronavirus pandemic has shortened baseball’s familiar 162-game, six-month marathon to a 60-game, 67-day sprint, auguring the most unusual season in MLB history
What’s quite certain to be the weirdest year in Major League Baseball history shoves off Thursday night with the familiar 162-game, six-month marathon having been shortened – after a wildly self-destructive standoff between the owners and the players that cast doubt on whether there would be any season at all – to a 60-game, 67-day sprint. Ready or not, let the games begin.
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