{"id":563562,"date":"2026-02-10T04:19:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T04:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/563562\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T04:19:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T04:19:18","slug":"purple-row-after-dark-would-you-rather-watch-a-pitchers-duel-or-a-slugfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/563562\/","title":{"rendered":"Purple Row After Dark: Would you rather watch a pitchers\u2019 duel or a slugfest?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">I was perusing through our sister sites this morning and saw this question posed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.batterypower.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Battery Power<\/a>, home of the Atlanta Braves. In the wake of yesterday\u2019s Super Bowl, it seemed like a relevant question.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For the majority of the Super Bowl, it seemed like Seattle Seahawks kicker Jason Myers was going to win MVP since he set an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/seahawks-jason-myers-first-200-point-scorer-record-five-field-goals-super-bowl-lx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NFL record with five field goals in the Super Bowl<\/a>. However, things started to pick up in the fourth quarter \u2014 the first touchdown of the game was scored with 13:24 left in the game \u2014 and the Seahawks ultimately stomped the New England Patriots 29-13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Comparatively, the Philadelphia Eagles steamrolled the Kansas City Chiefs 40-22 in last year\u2019s Super Bowl with the scoring more evenly distributed through all four quarters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Putting a baseball spin on this, I ask this question of you: Do you prefer pitchers\u2019 duels or slugfests?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">We root for the Colorado Rockies, who should (theoretically) be involved in more slugfests at Coors Field. However, they do sometimes get involved in pitchers\u2019 duels as well, especially in some of the California stadiums.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Slugfests, of course, feature more action. Baseballs are flying through the air and players are running all over the field, but they also take longer (sorry, Rob Manfred, but you cannot have lots of offense and short games). Meanwhile, pitchers\u2019 duels are shorter games that take more strategy, but they can sometimes be \u201cboring\u201d because of the lack of action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Last year, the first slugfest the Rockies were involved in was April 6th against the Athletics, where they beat them 12-5 in Chase Dollander\u2019s MLB Debut. Dollander was also involved in a daring no-hitter duel against Tyler Glasnow and the Los Angeles Dodgers on September 8th (the Rockies ultimately lost 3-1).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">There were a few of each last year, of course, but those were the ones that stood out to me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">So, Purple Row night owls, what say you? Which do you prefer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I was perusing through our sister sites this morning and saw this question posed by Battery Power, home&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2405],"tags":[5,167,52,4316,4,12123,168],"class_list":{"0":"post-563562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-colorado-rockies","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-colorado","10":"tag-colorado-rockies","11":"tag-coloradorockies","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-purple-row-community","14":"tag-rockies"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116044417123236726","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}