A while back I wrote a post about game five of the World Series. If you remember, that game got postponed due to a rain delay in the sixth inning. But according to the rule book it was officially a complete game. The commissioner of baseball, Bud Selig, overruled this rule and they played the rest of the game the next night.
Well now Bud announced that there has never been a rain-shortened game in the postseason and there never will be because there is now a new rule in effect that states that postseason games can not be shortened by bad weather. He also said this rule will also include the all-star game and tiebreaker games. Here is part of Selig's official statement,
"All postseason games, All-Star games and that, will be full-length affairs, and the rule will be so written."
According to baseball's rules, games are official as soon as the trailing team has made 15 outs (5 innings). This was the case in game 5 when the Rays had just tied the game in the sixth inning and it started to poor rain. Since the game was tied, it would have been finished later anyways, but Selig said that if the Phillies would have still led 2-1 when it started raining, the game would have been continued later even if it took several days.
2 comments:
Your post is really interesting. I really like how you referred back to an old post that you made. But as far as the new rule, is anything going to happen about that game? It is really unusual to me that this just came out because that was such awhile back and it seems like a pretty big deal. Good post though, very interesting.
I like this post its pretty interesting reading something as serious as a new rule in baseball. I think that they should just have it in writing from her on out and write it clearly so that there is no more confusion, because honestly who wants confusion especially at a big game like the world series?
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