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11/11/2004 8:43 AM ET
MLB drops second straight
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By Barry M. Bloom / MLB.com |
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SAPPORO, Japan -- Major League Baseball put out a call for Murray Cook, their field guru, to make an emergency trip to Japan. It was a house call to cure some very slick pitching mounds at all five of the domed stadiums in which this eight-game Japan All-Star Series is being played.
The Major League pitchers have complained that the two-step rubber the Japanese employ and the soft composition of the dirt has made it difficult for them to work in the series. They didn't seem to have much trouble in the first four games, all victories, although Jake Peavy and Roger Clemens said that they couldn't get their footing.
Cook cured the problem on Thursday night in the Sapporo Dome, building the mound to MLB specifications with clay and a flat rubber.
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