Phillies reliever Matt Strahm joined the Baseball Isn’t Boring podcast this week and discussed an issue that is impacting ballparks across baseball: the timing of beer sales.
The longstanding policy across baseball had previously been that beer sales would be halted after the seventh inning. The idea behind that policy was obvious—to give fans time to sober up before traveling home from the game.
However, with new pace-of-play policies leading to quicker games, some teams have elected to alter their stadium beer policies and now serve alcohol through the eighth inning instead. The Brewers, Rangers and Diamondbacks are among teams who have changed their alcohol policy.
