Running 2015 MLB Regular-Season Thread

2013 Astros struck out 1,535 times.
NL record in 2010 Diamondbacks at 1,529

 

Red Sox-Yankees has possibility of becoming first-ever night-day doubleheader.

 

Yankees have tied it again in the bottom of the 18th, and we go to the 19th.

 

Yankees might have preferred to lose it there. Rogers threw 35 pitches last night and is over 60 tonight, and they don't even have a position player left to come in and pitch. Might have to dip into the rotation if anyone is still around.

 

And the Red Sox go on top again in the top of the 19th.

 

They might have decided that considering they did not bunt after a leadoff single in the bottom of the 19th.

And as I type that, the Red Sox turn two to end the game.

 

I've often wondered what happens, if a team uses all 25 players in a game (assuming the next day's starting pitcher isn't home or in a hotel), and, with only nine players left, someone gets hurt and can't continue? I'm guessing in the field, they just go with eight players.

But what happens, let's say, they're down to nine players, and someone gets drilled in the head with a pitch and can't continue? Do they just allow another guy in the lineup to pinch-run? Allow a reentry? Make the team give up having the runner on base?

 

What if MLB played a classic extra-inning game, and no one was there to see it? Did it still happen?

 

Ghost runner.

 

Bud Selig calls it a tie.

 

4.17
A game shall be forfeited to the opposing team when a team is unable or refuses to place nine players on the field.

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I remember a Dodgers-Cubs game at Wrigley in the early '80s when they had to put Fernando in the outfield. They shuttled him between left and right depending on where they thought the ball would go.

 

Because they couldn't find Bobby Welch. Turns out, he was asleep in the clubhouse, which is quite a hike from the dugout at Wrigley.