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Selig: MLB will enact rules to ban weather-shortened postseason games

NEW YORK—There has never been a rain-shortened game in the postseason, and now there never will be.

Baseball commissioner Bud Selig announced the sport will enact a rules change stating that postseason games cannot be shortened because of bad weather.

“All postseason games, All-Star games and that, will be full-length affairs, and the rule will be so written,” Selig said Thursday following an owners’ meeting.

Selig said the change also will apply to tiebreaker games that decide division titles and wild-card berths.

“Any game that has significance for the postseason,” he said. “It will be very clear now. Everybody will know exactly.”

Under baseball’s rules, games are official as soon as the trailing team has made 15 outs.

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1. Ivan Grushenko of Hong Kong Posted: November 21, 2008 at 03:43 AM (#3013590)

Hmmm....so a Game 162 for all the Division marbles can still be called after 5 innings? Or do those have "significance for the postseason"?

2. Enrico Pallazzo Posted: November 21, 2008 at 03:44 AM (#3013591)

“Any game that has significance for the postseason,”

So...just about any game played by BOS, TB, NYY, NYM, PHI, CHC, CWS, MIL, ARI, SF, LAA, LAD, MIN, STL and DET next year? Oh, wait. I'm confused.

3. Justin 'The Cespedobear' T Posted: November 21, 2008 at 03:47 AM (#3013593)

The chance seems remote, but with Bud's luck I am sure that in the next 5 years an All-Star game will be halted and they will expect to finish it the next day but the weather won't subside. And if they try and play it in the downpour, somebody will break their leg slipping in the outfield.

4. phredbird

Posted: November 21, 2008 at 03:48 AM (#3013595)

Why must there be immediate snark to everything?

5. catomi01 Posted: November 21, 2008 at 03:51 AM (#3013598)

because bud selig is involved in everything

6. JRVJ (formerly Delta Socrates) Posted: November 21, 2008 at 03:52 AM (#3013599)

3, I'm embarrassed to say it, but I had thoughts similar to yours when I RTFA.

7. Robert in Manhattan Beach Posted: November 21, 2008 at 03:53 AM (#3013600)

The baseball gods only see this is a challenge. Locusts are next.

8. Crispix Attacks Posted: November 21, 2008 at 04:55 AM (#3013619)

There has never been a midge-shortened game in the postseason, and now there never will be.

9. The Most Interesting Man In The World Posted: November 21, 2008 at 05:07 AM (#3013622)

When was the last time a regular season game was called with under 9 innings played? It sure doesn't happen as often as it used to.

10. Steve Treder Posted: November 21, 2008 at 05:43 AM (#3013634)

When was the last time a regular season game was called with under 9 innings played? It sure doesn't happen as often as it used to.

Stop confusing us with facts, and just allow this to be the solution in search of a problem that it is.

11. SoSHially Unacceptable Posted: November 21, 2008 at 05:48 AM (#3013637)

Stop confusing us with facts, and just allow this to be the solution in search of a problem that it is.

Well, it was an actual concern this year. This just puts into the rules what baseball should have done long before Selig was commissioner.

That being said, I'm not sure I'd put the Mid-Summer Classic in the same category, regardless of its current countiness.

12. wickedwitch Posted: November 21, 2008 at 02:22 PM (#3013690)

When was the last time a regular season game was called with under 9 innings played? It sure doesn't happen as often as it used to.

It happened twice to Toronto and Baltimore at the end of this past season.

13. zonk Posted: November 21, 2008 at 02:50 PM (#3013699)

I don't know... Looking back at the Cubs-Dodgers NLDS series, I think weather shortening a couple of those games would have been just the ticket. We might have won one of them, and the annoyance of the other two would have taken up less of my life.

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