If a major league baseball game is rained out after, say, three innings so that there is no winner or loser, are other stats still recorded? Example: Joe Schmoe homers in the first inning. Is the homer going into the offical record?
No, stats aren’t kept from rained-out games.
Read about the homeruns that didn’t happen even to the Babe.
Woah. I am normally a baseball purist (I loathe the DH, I don’t like inter-league play [though I DO enjoy seeing the Cubs and White Sox play each-other…]), I completely agree with that article. Too bad nothing’s ever going to change.
With baseball now waiting 3-4 hours to resume after a rain delay, & improved drainage, & a few roofs (mostly retractable,one permanent), this is less a problem statistically than when games were called after just 30 minutes of rain.
true, but there ARE occasionally games that are called early because forecasts predict no let-up.
Of course, this would cause problems when dealing with rain-checks. How would it be handled?
I can’t wait for a day-night double header to have the 1st game go 20 innings.