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Consequently, the tie-breaking rules were changed so that two teams tied for a division championship had to play a tiebreaking game even if both teams had already qualified for the postseason. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] The team losing the tie-breaking game qualified for a wild-card berth only if its regular-season record was among the league's two ...
No game is played if both teams are guaranteed to go to the playoffs. This happened in 2001 Major League Baseball season when the Houston Astros (9–7 against STL) and St. Louis Cardinals (7–9 against HOU) tied for first in the National League Central with records of 93–69.
the roster list rules (active and expanded rosters) which also determines who is eligible to play for a team in the playoffs and World Series; tie-breaking rules for deciding which teams go to the playoffs; implementing/enforcing the expanded playing rules issued to umpires which goes into much greater detail than the official baseball rules of
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Extra innings is the extension of a baseball or softball game in order to break a tie. Ordinarily, a baseball game consists of nine regulation innings (in softball and high school baseball games there are typically seven innings; in Little League Baseball, six), each of which is divided into halves: the visiting team bats first, after which the ...
Really: If a batter bunts, he is thrown out of the game. Match play: “Banana Ball” is like match play in golf. The team that scores the most runs during an inning gets a point for that inning.
A tie game does not count as a game in the standings—a 2008 rule change made all tie games suspended unless and until not needed for the sake of determining playoff teams, and no longer replayed; however, though undecided, and not factored in the championship standings and the playoff reckoning, a tie game goes on the record and player and ...
The Chicago White Sox celebrate after defeating the Minnesota Twins 1–0 to win the 2008 American League Central. A tie-breaker was required in Major League Baseball (MLB) when two or more teams were tied at the end of the regular season for a postseason position such as a league pennant (prior to the introduction of the League Championship Series in 1969), a division title, or a wild card spot.