Major League Baseball’s rule that after the starting pitcher, each successive pitcher must face a minimum of three batters (to cut down on the total time to complete a game) robs the very essence of baseball’s intricate and strategic planning, thus hindering a manager’s decision making. Example: 8th inning of Blue Jays vs Mariners Game 5. After Brendon Little allowed the first batter to hit a game-tying home run, manager John Schneider could have replaced him. We know the final outcome.

Wayne Smith

Scarborough

(There are many rules we don’t like particularly when the game isn’t our way, but this one doesn’t seem to be on the radar to change.)

Re “Bumpy road ahead” (Letters to the Editor, Oct. 15): Over the past several months here in Milton, speed bumps (or, as the town likes to call t

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