What is the minimum number of innings required for a MLB baseball game to count as completed?
Question:For example, how many innings have to be complete to allow a game to be called via postponement due to rain (assuming the game isn't tied)?
Answers:
1) 5 full innings must be played
2) if the home team is winning after the top of the 5th, it is like the bottom of the 9th if they are winning, and therefore do not have to bat
3) for these to be effective, the umpires must agree that there is a reasonable reason to shorten the game (usually weather conditions, especially rain).
also, from your secondary question, you cannot have a game called after the above situations and have it be postponed, because postponed means that the game is not done and needs to be played all over again.
after the above conditions are met, then the game can be determined final, unless it is tied.
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55 innings have to be played for it to be official.
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game can be final after 55, but if the home team is ahead, they dont have to bat in the top of the fifth
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Four and a half IF the home team is ahead after the end of the fifth inning for the visiting team. Five innings if the home home team has not had its fifth inning at bat.Chow!!
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