re: Last year's College World Series had twice as many runs as this year

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I watch this closely. Wind Saturday was out of the East. Sunday was (as is today) out of the SSE. Nothing went deep to right but TCU hit a monster homerun to left. Yesterday, the wind was out of the North.

I have watched most of every game. When your pitchers are getting 10+ Ks and 10+ ground ball outs, wind and size of the stadium have very little opportunity to come into play.

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I've watched the CWS for years. If you can't admit TDA has killed the long ball I don't know what to tell you.

here are some figures for you (article from 2013)
" Through 77 regular-season games since 2011, TD Ameritrade has yielded only 29 home runs. That's 0.38 per game, less than half the average college ballpark. Just for comparison, the average major league ballpark in 2012 gave up about two home runs per game."

"In its final three years, Rosenblatt yielded 2.45 homers per CWS game. In 2011 and '12 at TD Ameritrade, the average dropped to 0.64 and 0.67. This year, three balls have cleared the wall — 0.25 per game."

"But in the three seasons prior to 2011, the CWS produced 34 percent more home runs per game than the regular season. Since then, the CWS has produced 43 percent fewer homers than the regular season."

"CWS teams are 21-0 at TD Ameritrade when scoring five runs or more. In other words, there has never been a game in which both teams scored five."

And here is a running tally of hits at TDA. LINK / There have been 43 homeruns hit in now the 6th year at TDA. Home runs are part of the game of baseball. Yes, the pitching can be good, but that is not why power numbers fall off like they do at the CWS now