# MLB and doubleheaders **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** baseball-mlb\ **Created:** [September 12, 2019, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-doubleheaders/840119 "2019-09-12T19:10:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![harmonicamoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/65b543/32.png) [@harmonicamoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmonicamoon)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-doubleheaders/840119/1 "2019-09-12T19:10:13Z")
Due to a posponed game the Yankees will have a doubleheader today. I believe it is a two ticket game. And it got me thinking, are one ticket admissions to a doubleheader a thing of the past? That would be my dream. All day at the ballpark with a single ticket admission. Have you ever been to one? If so, when? ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-doubleheaders/840119/2 "2019-09-12T19:16:19Z")
I went to a couple back in the 1980s. They are pretty much a thing of the past; MLB isn’t gonna give you anything at half price anymore. I seem to recall one or two have been scheduled in recent years, I believe by teams with poor attendance, like the Rays, as something of a promotional effort, but that’s about it. A few traditional doubleheaders will happen here and there to make up for rainouts, but even makeup games are, whenever possible, played as day/night split doubleheaders so they can charge admission twice. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-doubleheaders/840119/3 "2019-09-12T19:17:16Z")
They do them from time to time. Here’s [the announcement of one of them](https://www.sny.tv/mets/news/sundays-mets-vs-marlins-game-postponed-to-be-made-up-as-part-of-doubleheader/307067602)from this season. The game was in August. Teams only add doubleheaders if a game is rained out. They are never scheduled in the beginning of the season (to increase income, obviously). A day-night doubleheader (two admissions) is more common, but sometimes it’s not logistically possible. I did go to one years ago. The thing was that we didn’t realize it was to be a double header (it was making up a rainout the previous day) and we wondered why the game seemed to have started early, and didn’t know there’d be a second game. ---
**Author:** ![FastDan1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fastdan1/32/427_2.png) [@FastDan1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FastDan1)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-doubleheaders/840119/4 "2019-09-12T19:20:12Z")
Not completely a thing of the past, but much less common than years ago. [From earlier this year](https://www.nj.com/yankees/2019/05/yankees-orioles-game-is-postponed-by-rain-doubleheader-scheduled-for-wednesday-what-is-the-ticket-policy.html): > [@](#): > > Following a two-hour rain delay, Monday’s game between the New York Yankees and Baltimore Orioles at Yankee Stadium was postponed. It will be made up on Wednesday as part of a single-admission doubleheader beginning at 3 p.m. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-doubleheaders/840119/5 "2019-09-12T20:09:01Z")
During the 1970s I attended about ten doubleheaders, all single-admission. Almost all involved the Cubs; the other was White Sox at home against the Twins. I went to maybe four more in the eighties, but none since 1987. By then doubleheaders were considerably less common. It;s also true that I became a father in 1986. I definitely enjoyed the DHs, and I always felt like I was making out like a bandit by getting two games for the price of one (especially when I reached my teens, about 1974, and started going to games on my own sometimes, in which case I was responsible for paying for the ticket myself). I don’t know that I would have the stomach for them now, though. Games are just too long and I have too many other things to do. Someone I know went to the Phillies-Mets game last Sunday and reported that the game took 4 and a half hours (9 innings, yeeks). I looked up a couple of the early doubleheaders I’d seen and found that the two games together didn’t last that long. –Doubleheader games are just seven innings long in the minors, and I have seen the first games of several MiLB doubleheaders over the years, but never stayed for game 2. Just too much of a time commitment. Oh well.