"Pitchers' duels are tense - one pitch can end up carrying enough win expectancy to crystallize the final result. Slugfests are tense, but in a different way: the long-tailed cat and room full of rocking chairs way. (Side story: the reason why we stopped taking our cat on long trips with us is because one time, we were forced by an ice storm to get off the road and make an unplanned day-long stop,"
"I think I prefer the former because it can (but does not necessarily) feel less scattershot, or, more to the point, random. The thing with a high-scoring slugfest is that you get lots of opportunities for one team to benefit from HR/FB in a way that the other team just can't match due to what is effectively a roll of the dice, and which team ends up with a higher tally in the end can feel non-specific to what actually happened."
Pitchers' duels are tense because a single pitch can carry enough win expectancy to decide the game. Slugfests are tense in a different way, producing many more events and higher variance in scoring. A cat once crawled into exposed box springs during an unplanned hotel stop, prompting an end to traveling with the cat. High-scoring games create many opportunities for one team to benefit from home runs or fly balls in ways the other team cannot match, making outcomes feel like a roll of the dice. Pitchers' duels can still be settled by odd plays, but they feel less whimsical.
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