Matt Strahm Raises Safety Concerns Over MLB Teams Extending Alcohol Sales

By Tom Dougherty, CBS Philadelphia

April 14, 2023

PHILADELPHIA -- Don't count Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Matt Strahm as a fan of MLB teams moving beer sales back due to the shortened time of baseball games.

Strahm said on the "Baseball Isn't Boring" podcast Thursday that teams should be ending alcohol sales in the sixth inning, not pushing sales back to the eighth in the pitch clock era.

"The reason we stopped it in the seventh before is to give our fans time to sober up and drive home safe, correct?" Strahm said. "So, now with a faster pace game and me just being a man of common sense, if the game is going to finish quicker, would we not move the beer sales back to the sixth inning to give our fans time to sober up and drive home?"

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