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[derek245583]

My Brother in Law is in NY tonight and is going to the Yankees game. He is pumped he might get to see Jeter break the Yankee record for hits.

HOWEVER, there is rain in the area....he is thinking the game will start, Jeter will get a hit, and the game will get called in the 3rd inning.

Are the stats counted if the game is essentially wiped out? Cant find it in the rulebook.

TIA

 

[Greco]

My Brother in Law is in NY tonight and is going to the Yankees game. He is pumped he might get to see Jeter break the Yankee record for hits. HOWEVER, there is rain in the area....he is thinking the game will start, Jeter will get a hit, and the game will get called in the 3rd inning.Are the stats counted if the game is essentially wiped out? Cant find it in the rulebook.TIA

Pretty sure they don't count until the game goes official. I say this based on an interview I read with Al Kaline when the reported asked him why he retired with 399 career homeruns and 3007 hits. Had he hit a 400th hr he would have, at the time been the only American League player to have hit 400/3000. Yaz did it a season or two later. Kaline remarked that he hit 4 or 5 home runs that he could remember hitting that had been wiped out due to rain. hth, ywia.

 

[Eephus]

My Brother in Law is in NY tonight and is going to the Yankees game. He is pumped he might get to see Jeter break the Yankee record for hits. HOWEVER, there is rain in the area....he is thinking the game will start, Jeter will get a hit, and the game will get called in the 3rd inning.Are the stats counted if the game is essentially wiped out? Cant find it in the rulebook.TIA

Pretty sure they don't count until the game goes official. I say this based on an interview I read with Al Kaline when the reported asked him why he retired with 399 career homeruns and 3007 hits. Had he hit a 400th hr he would have, at the time been the only American League player to have hit 400/3000. Yaz did it a season or two later. Kaline remarked that he hit 4 or 5 home runs that he could remember hitting that had been wiped out due to rain. hth, ywia.

Yeah, that's right. The best example is when Cal Ripken Jr. broke Gehrig's consecutive game streak. The key event wasn't when Ripken took the field or the final out, it was when the game went official. I don't recall if the O's were leading after 4 1/2 or whether they waited until the top of the 6th, but I do remember them stopping the game literally right in the middle of it for an on-field ceremony.

 

[Greco]

My Brother in Law is in NY tonight and is going to the Yankees game. He is pumped he might get to see Jeter break the Yankee record for hits. HOWEVER, there is rain in the area....he is thinking the game will start, Jeter will get a hit, and the game will get called in the 3rd inning.Are the stats counted if the game is essentially wiped out? Cant find it in the rulebook.TIA

Pretty sure they don't count until the game goes official. I say this based on an interview I read with Al Kaline when the reporter asked him why he retired with 399 career homeruns and 3007 hits. Had he hit a 400th hr he would have, at the time, been the only American League player to have hit 400/3000. Yaz did it a season or two later. Kaline remarked that he hit 4 or 5 home runs that he could remember hitting that had been wiped out due to rain. hth, ywia.

Yeah, that's right. The best example is when Cal Ripken Jr. broke Gehrig's consecutive game streak. The key event wasn't when Ripken took the field or the final out, it was when the game went official. I don't recall if the O's were leading after 4 1/2 or whether they waited until the top of the 6th, but I do remember them stopping the game literally right in the middle of it for an on-field ceremony.

:eephcred:

 

[derek245583]

My Brother in Law is in NY tonight and is going to the Yankees game. He is pumped he might get to see Jeter break the Yankee record for hits. HOWEVER, there is rain in the area....he is thinking the game will start, Jeter will get a hit, and the game will get called in the 3rd inning.Are the stats counted if the game is essentially wiped out? Cant find it in the rulebook.TIA

Pretty sure they don't count until the game goes official. I say this based on an interview I read with Al Kaline when the reported asked him why he retired with 399 career homeruns and 3007 hits. Had he hit a 400th hr he would have, at the time been the only American League player to have hit 400/3000. Yaz did it a season or two later. Kaline remarked that he hit 4 or 5 home runs that he could remember hitting that had been wiped out due to rain. hth, ywia.

Yeah, that's right. The best example is when Cal Ripken Jr. broke Gehrig's consecutive game streak. The key event wasn't when Ripken took the field or the final out, it was when the game went official. I don't recall if the O's were leading after 4 1/2 or whether they waited until the top of the 6th, but I do remember them stopping the game literally right in the middle of it for an on-field ceremony.

I do remember that...Thanks

 

[dparker713]

My Brother in Law is in NY tonight and is going to the Yankees game. He is pumped he might get to see Jeter break the Yankee record for hits. HOWEVER, there is rain in the area....he is thinking the game will start, Jeter will get a hit, and the game will get called in the 3rd inning.Are the stats counted if the game is essentially wiped out? Cant find it in the rulebook.TIA

Pretty sure they don't count until the game goes official. I say this based on an interview I read with Al Kaline when the reported asked him why he retired with 399 career homeruns and 3007 hits. Had he hit a 400th hr he would have, at the time been the only American League player to have hit 400/3000. Yaz did it a season or two later. Kaline remarked that he hit 4 or 5 home runs that he could remember hitting that had been wiped out due to rain. hth, ywia.

Yeah, that's right. The best example is when Cal Ripken Jr. broke Gehrig's consecutive game streak. The key event wasn't when Ripken took the field or the final out, it was when the game went official. I don't recall if the O's were leading after 4 1/2 or whether they waited until the top of the 6th, but I do remember them stopping the game literally right in the middle of it for an on-field ceremony.

5 full innings must be played. 4 1/2 with a home team lead isnt enough.

 

[Eephus]

My Brother in Law is in NY tonight and is going to the Yankees game. He is pumped he might get to see Jeter break the Yankee record for hits.

HOWEVER, there is rain in the area....he is thinking the game will start, Jeter will get a hit, and the game will get called in the 3rd inning.

Are the stats counted if the game is essentially wiped out? Cant find it in the rulebook.

TIA

Pretty sure they don't count until the game goes official. I say this based on an interview I read with Al Kaline when the reported asked him why he retired with 399 career homeruns and 3007 hits. Had he hit a 400th hr he would have, at the time been the only American League player to have hit 400/3000. Yaz did it a season or two later. Kaline remarked that he hit 4 or 5 home runs that he could remember hitting that had been wiped out due to rain. hth, ywia.

Yeah, that's right. The best example is when Cal Ripken Jr. broke Gehrig's consecutive game streak. The key event wasn't when Ripken took the field or the final out, it was when the game went official. I don't recall if the O's were leading after 4 1/2 or whether they waited until the top of the 6th, but I do remember them stopping the game literally right in the middle of it for an on-field ceremony.

5 full innings must be played. 4 1/2 with a home team lead isnt enough.

From MLB rule book:

4.10

(a) A regulation game consists of nine innings, unless extended because of a tie score, or shortened (1) because the home team needs none of its half of the ninth inning or only a fraction of it, or (2) because the umpire calls the game. EXCEPTION: National Association leagues may adopt a rule providing that one or both games of a doubleheader shall be seven innings in length. In such games, any of these rules applying to the ninth inning shall apply to the seventh inning.

(b) If the score is tied after nine completed innings play shall continue until (1) the visiting team has scored more total runs than the home team at the end of a completed inning, or (2) the home team scores the winning run in an uncompleted inning.

© If a game is called, it is a regulation game:

(1) If five innings have been completed;

(2) If the home team has scored more runs in four or four and a fraction half-innings than the visiting team has scored in five completed half-innings;

(3) If the home team scores one or more runs in its half of the fifth inning to tie the score