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As many innings as necessary are played until one team has the lead at the end of an inning. Thus, the home team always has a chance to respond if the visiting team scores in the top half of the inning; this gives the home team a small tactical advantage. In theory, a baseball game could go on forever; in practice, however, they eventually end.
The frequency of immaculate innings has varied widely throughout baseball history. There were only 30 immaculate innings in the 114 Major League seasons from 1876 to 1988, but the next 30 occurred in the 21 seasons from 1989 to 2009. The pace has since picked up even more, with 55 immaculate innings in the 15 seasons from 2010 to 2024.
The Netherlands defeats Cuba 2–1 to win the 2011 Baseball World Cup, becoming the first European team to win the Baseball World Cup since 1938. October 16 – A four-run first and four-run fourth power the St. Louis Cardinals to a 12–6 victory in Game 6 to win the 2011 National League Championship Series.
Cancelling a game because of bad weather: "I thought we were gonna get banged but we got in five innings." To hit the ball hard, especially to hit a homer. "Utley banged the game-tying home run." Players who are banged up are injured, though may continue to play. Example: "Banged up Braves ready for playoff rematch with Astros."
As of 2024, the Major League Baseball definition of a perfect game is largely a side effect of the decision made by the major leagues' Committee for Statistical Accuracy on September 4, 1991, to redefine a no-hitter as a game in which the pitcher or pitchers on one team throw a complete game of nine innings or more without surrendering a hit. [15]
In Japanese baseball, however, games end if tied after twelve innings (or, in postseason play in Nippon Professional Baseball, fifteen innings). For the 2011 and 2012 NPB season, a game also ended in a tie if a regular-season game has reached its 3-hour, 30-minute time limit, and both teams are tied.
By RYAN GORMAN A high school pitcher in Japan lasted dozens of innings and threw several hundreds, yes hundreds, of pitches this weekend. Taiga Matsui, of Chukyo High School, threw 709 pitches ...
As of 2019, 47 different players have recorded at least six hits in an extra-inning Major League Baseball (MLB) game. Only Jimmie Foxx has accomplished the feat more than once in his career [ 13 ] and no player has ever amassed more than nine hits in a game, with Johnny Burnett holding that distinction. [ 261 ]