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re: Avg # of baseballs used in an MLB game
Posted on 6/17/21 at 5:47 pm to PrimeTime Money
Posted on 6/17/21 at 5:47 pm to PrimeTime Money
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The baseballs aren’t clean in MLB. They are all rubbed with a special mud before they are game-ready.
They are not allowed to do this anymore
ETA: I’m not sure if this is true, but thought they quit allowing pitchers to mud balls pre game, trying to find source
This post was edited on 6/17/21 at 5:50 pm
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Posted on 6/17/21 at 6:02 pm to hubertcumberdale
I'm pretty sure the umpiring crew rubs mud on the balls.
Posted on 6/17/21 at 6:30 pm to hubertcumberdale
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They are not allowed to do this anymore
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Before all major- and minor-league baseball games, an umpire or clubhouse attendant rubs six dozen or more balls with the mud to give them a rougher surface, to make them easier for pitchers to grip, and to comply with MLB Rule 4.01(c), which states that all baseballs shall be "properly rubbed so that the gloss is removed." The rubbing mud's unique feature is that it is "very fine, like thick chocolate pudding",[1] and it has been considered the "perfect baseball-rubbing mud".[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_rubbing_mud
Posted on 6/17/21 at 9:00 pm to jlovel7
Way more than that.
Retail is around ~$18 for a single official MLB ball.
Retail is around ~$18 for a single official MLB ball.
Posted on 6/17/21 at 9:05 pm to jlovel7
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At $5 per baseball that's a pretty hefty price tag.
Is that what they cost to buy individually at retail or is that the wholesale price?
They can't be cheap.
The irony is that they pay some guy to take all the balls and put his special mud on them before they make it into the game.
Posted on 6/17/21 at 9:08 pm to i am dan
I sat near home plate of an Astros game a few weeks ago and watched this take place. There was a guy in a little booth by the dugout with boxes and boxes of baseballs. Every few pitches (I couldn’t tell exactly what initiated it) they’d switch out the ball, the little batboy would get the ball and toss it to the guy in the booth, who would write on it and put it back in a box. This went on all game. He must have went through 7-8 boxes of balls which likely had 18/24 balls each. Fouled back, new ball. Pitch in the dirt, new ball. Sometimes, no apparent reason at all, new ball. All returned balls marked and put back in a box.
This post was edited on 6/17/21 at 9:12 pm
Posted on 6/18/21 at 2:36 am to i am dan
I remember in little league we’d maybe go through 2-3 balls.. 
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