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Post by Winston Wolf on May 8, 2017 5:01:07 GMT
Cubs get 3 in the 9th to tie it, currently in the top of the 15th.
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2017 5:47:02 GMT
Come on Yankees, hit a home run already and break this tie so we can end this game! This was our game to win!
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Post by WarrenPeace on May 8, 2017 7:26:17 GMT
Is there an inning limit or would they have played this game for 24 hours or more if they would have had to?
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Post by No_Socks_Here on May 8, 2017 10:36:59 GMT
Yanks win 5-4 in 18 innings.
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Post by Terrapin Station on May 8, 2017 11:03:34 GMT
Is there an inning limit or would they have played this game for 24 hours or more if they would have had to? No inning limit, but the chance that any game would go much longer than this one did is pretty slim. That's because of baseball's restrictions on how you can use players, so that the longer the game goes on, (1) you're going to run out of pitchers so that either the last pitcher you use has to be stretched beyond his capabilities to pitch well, OR if you have any players left on the bench, you're going to wind up putting them in to pitch (and they already can't pitch well, especially for any length of time) and (2) the players are going to get increasingly fatigued. The upshot of this is that there are going to be an increasing number of screw-ups, and screw-ups lead to scoring. Even if the scoring is matched for a couple innings, so that a tie perpetuates, it won't take very long before one team starts screwing up more than the other and the score winds up uneven. So it's practically impossible that you'd see a 24-hour game. |
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Post by WarrenPeace on May 8, 2017 13:21:35 GMT
Is there an inning limit or would they have played this game for 24 hours or more if they would have had to? No inning limit, but the chance that any game would go much longer than this one did is pretty slim. That's because of baseball's restrictions on how you can use players, so that the longer the game goes on, (1) you're going to run out of pitchers so that either the last pitcher you use has to be stretched beyond his capabilities to pitch well, OR if you have any players left on the bench, you're going to wind up putting them in to pitch (and they already can't pitch well, especially for any length of time) and (2) the players are going to get increasingly fatigued. The upshot of this is that there are going to be an increasing number of screw-ups, and screw-ups lead to scoring. Even if the scoring is matched for a couple innings, so that a tie perpetuates, it won't take very long before one team starts screwing up more than the other and the score winds up uneven. So it's practically impossible that you'd see a 24-hour game. These guys do have to get rest for the game the next day though. Baseball is more endurance than one may think. |
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Post by No_Socks_Here on May 8, 2017 14:08:06 GMT
The longest game in history was 26 innings between the Boston Braves & Brooklyn Robins in 1920. That game ended a 1-1 tie because of darkness. Interestingly, both starting pitchers pitched all 26 innings.
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Post by Terrapin Station on May 8, 2017 16:13:06 GMT
No inning limit, but the chance that any game would go much longer than this one did is pretty slim. That's because of baseball's restrictions on how you can use players, so that the longer the game goes on, (1) you're going to run out of pitchers so that either the last pitcher you use has to be stretched beyond his capabilities to pitch well, OR if you have any players left on the bench, you're going to wind up putting them in to pitch (and they already can't pitch well, especially for any length of time) and (2) the players are going to get increasingly fatigued. The upshot of this is that there are going to be an increasing number of screw-ups, and screw-ups lead to scoring. Even if the scoring is matched for a couple innings, so that a tie perpetuates, it won't take very long before one team starts screwing up more than the other and the score winds up uneven. So it's practically impossible that you'd see a 24-hour game. These guys do have to get rest for the game the next day though. Baseball is more endurance than one may think. Yeah, ideally they'd get enough rest, but even with 9-inning games, the number of times that players don't get to the next town and get to bed before 3 or 4 a.m. is kind of ridiculous. They really need to change their schedule. I actually wish they'd have less games per season, and I'd schedule 1 or 2 days off every time they travel (1 if they travel within the same time zone or just one time zone different, 2 if they have to travel 2 or more time zones). I wish that baseball would go to an 82 game season like basketball and hockey. |
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Post by WarrenPeace on May 8, 2017 16:23:49 GMT
These guys do have to get rest for the game the next day though. Baseball is more endurance than one may think. Yeah, ideally they'd get enough rest, but even with 9-inning games, the number of times that players don't get to the next town and get to bed before 3 or 4 a.m. is kind of ridiculous. They really need to change their schedule. I actually wish they'd have less games per season, and I'd schedule 1 or 2 days off every time they travel (1 if they travel within the same time zone or just one time zone different, 2 if they have to travel 2 or more time zones). I wish that baseball would go to an 82 game season like basketball and hockey. I'm not really paying attention to schedules but does an east coast team that just got done playing a game then have to travel all the way to the west (Cal. or Wash) to play in a game the very next day or night? Or do they allow them to make their way over with stops in between? Football is starting to get worse as well with a team that plays on Sun is then scheduled to play on the very next Thurs. and then Sun again. I think it's hard to say which sport takes the worst toll on the body. Maybe boxing or other fighting ones? Football? Hockey? And which one is the least? Maybe baseball? But still, you gotta be in this great shape to put up with, as you pointed out, all that endurance of flying and playing right away as well as all those games in a row. |
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Post by xystophoros on May 9, 2017 2:19:50 GMT
Some of the traveling happens on days off, but not all of it. There are plenty of times when a team arrives in a city at 2 or 3 am and guys have to play that day. If the previous night's game went extra innings, the team has to travel and play a day game, that really sucks.
That doesn't happen often though...it tends to be more of a problem if a team has to make up games on the schedule due to rain outs, etc.
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