Try not to be biased by the upcoming month of almost exclusive day games
Spring Training games are coming. This Saturday, the Braves will play their first game where score is tracked of the 2025 season. It’s a day game, of course, as are nearly all of the remaining games they’ll play until they head to San Diego for Opening Day.
So, that got me thinking — which do you prefer, day games or night games? Night games are more or less the default, and that has its own reliable charm: wrap up the workday and sink into the steady rhythm of balls, strikes, and dingers as pitching changes and the crack of the bat accompany you through whatever your evening routine is. Saying a guy blasted a ball into the night is also way cooler than anything you can say about the daytime.
But on the flip side, games played under natural light can be pretty great too. And it feels like more of a throwback, both to baseball’s history and to when you and your pals would get a game in on whatever field was available but definitely wasn’t going to be lit up for a bunch of chuckleheads who couldn’t even field a 9-on-9. You get the idea.
Anyway, make your choice.