More than half as many as the home runs are being hit by the college baseball teams. The averaging runs per game were halfway through the season.That’s because of the lately introduced metal bats for the baseball.

According to the research done by NCAA, the baseball scores in this season improved significantly,

as compared to the previous season. Stanford Coach Mark Marquess and North Carolina Coach Mike Fox did not support this change and they revealed their dissatisfaction in public.

Fox said that there was nothing wrong in the bat last year, and there were outstanding pitching performances, which could actually beat the hitter. Plenty of home runs kept the interests of the audiences. Marquess fears that if the trend continues, then a larger section of fan-base might reduce in future.

The 35th year Cardinal Coach was too concerned initially to make any changes as the college baseball was extremely popular at that time and the threshold of its popularity was never before at that level. For more than a decade, the baseball officials of college have been taking a pop out of bats. College World Series which was held in 1998 was the turning point, where 62 home runs were scored in just 14 games, which was also a new record. With 39 hits and seven home runs, Southern California won the championship by 21-14 by beating Arizona State.

To decrease the exit speeds of the ball from the bat, the metal bats have sweet shrunken spots and are designed to perform just like a wood. NCAA has reviewed the performances of this bat recently and found that the numbers of shutouts have increased from 277 to 444 and the batting average have gone down from .301 to .279 and the ERA have dropped from 5.83 to 4.62; after the introduction of this new bat.

NCAA’s chairman, Jeff Hurd said that the committee has received positive feedback for the metal baseball bat from most of the baseball coaches. But that statement doesn’t mean universal positive reply!