The Arizona Diamondbacks, Texas Rangers, Minnesota Twins and, fittingly, the Milwaukee Brewers have all gone to bat for the late inning beer drinker and booze tippler.
this season — but it’s also left fans with a shorter window for guzzling beer.
MLB does not tell teams when to start drying out their fans, but most teams traditionally cut them off during the seventh-inning stretch, to discourage drunk driving. Nothing like a cold one at the ballpark — which some MLB fans can now enjoy well into the late stages of the game.Long-time beer vendor Rocco Caputo sells Goose Island products during a game between the Chicago Cubs and the St. Louis Cardinals at Wrigley Field on August 23, 2022 in Chicago.The Brewers President of business operations Rick Schlesinger said the new rules were an experiment.
The Rangers had already allowed some eighth-inning booze sales last year, but the new decision to allow in-seat beer service to thirsty fans who can order on their phones was meant to prevent them from missing pivotal late game action while in line at the concession stand, officials said.
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