IGT>5/24<Braves @ Mets-Hefner's Gotta Be Due! Ike,We Need U!

[Fman99]

WOW TIE GAME ON THE PASSED BALL!

[Guest Kong76]

Crazy!

[Edgy MD]

Happy with the results, but Dale Scott is being stubborn. Somebody's going to get hurt.

[Zvon]

[Edgy MD]

Kong76 wrote: Crazy!

Welcome back.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Looks like they may shut this down for a bit. Scott was heading toward the plate purposefully.

[Frayed Knot]

Zvon wrote:

WHACKY PACKAGES!!!!

I can tell you're about my age Z, you had the same mis-spent childhood distractions.

[Fman99]

And.... the tarp is on the field. Glad they waited first, get the momentum of the tie in there before the delay.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

[Frayed Knot]

If this can't be continued tonight it'll be picked up at a later date and continued from this spot (new rule as of about two years ago) ... presumably tomorrow although both Sat & Sun have national TV considerations throwing a wrench into the works.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Edgy MD wrote: Hawkmoon. I need your love. Oh, um, boo.

On further review-- I was putting YoungerPooper to bed when this occurred-- Uggla did a HELL of a job here getting an ankle-high pitch up, much less out.

Multiple ties/unties on a rainy night against the Braves, with fireworks planned for afterward, should this game ever end... does this sound a little familiar yet?

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, that was some muscling up. Pretty good pitch.

[Fman99]

Frayed Knot wrote: If this can't be continued tonight it'll be picked up at a later date and continued from this spot (new rule as of about two years ago) ... presumably tomorrow although both Sat & Sun have national TV considerations throwing a wrench into the works.

According to Gary the game would be picked up tomorrow. I don't know if that's the default in the opening game of a series, but he seemed to be fairly certain of this.

[Zvon]

[Frayed Knot]

Fman99 wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: If this can't be continued tonight it'll be picked up at a later date and continued from this spot (new rule as of about two years ago) ... presumably tomorrow although both Sat & Sun have national TV considerations throwing a wrench into the works. According to Gary the game would be picked up tomorrow. I don't know if that's the default in the opening game of a series, but he seemed to be fairly certain of this.

I'm sure he's right, I'm just saying that the TV factor makes it a problem.
- At what time do they start the to-be-completed game?
- How does the network handle it if Game 1 goes extras and bleeds into "their" time?

[Frayed Knot]

Rain-delay O-o-T-S news: Angel Hernandez blows a game-winning call in Chicago

ChiSox have bases-loaded and one out vs Marlins
Miami goes for two on an Alex (when my baby smiles at me I go to) Rios grounder. He beats the relay at 1st by a half-step but Angel calls him out and instead of a Sox win they're going to extras.

[Edgy MD]

Angel Hernandez blowing a ballgame. This must be a post from last week.

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy MD wrote: Angel Hernandez blowing a ballgame. This must be a post from last week.

Nah, one per week is about his average.

[Frayed Knot]

And the Sox win it in the 11th anyway on a Jeff Keppinger bases-loaded single.

The best part about the non-win an inning earlier was hearing Hawk Harrelson's call on the play at first: "NOOOO, NOOOOO, NOOOOO"

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Nothing official yet, but there's rumbling on Twitter re: the Mets staff packing up equipment in the dugout, and a likely suspension.

OE: And there it is. 6:10 restart tomorrow.

[metirish]

Suspended says Google Now

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Franco bobblehead and fireworks tomorrow night. Sweet.

[ashie62]

I'm not sure the weather forecast is so spoony for tomorrow...

[Zvon]

Hmmm. If I start tomorrows IGT now, then we will win this one, right? Is that how it works?

[Frayed Knot]

This suspension and the network TV obligations poses another question with this game: Is it going to be televised?
The whole SNY crew was scheduled to have the day off and it's tough to see them cranking everything up for what might be 20 minutes of air time, and FOX certainly isn't going to start two hours early and blow off whatever was on the docket for their affiliates.

[Benjamin Grimm]

If the Mets hadn't tied the game in the bottom of the eighth, would the Braves have had an eight-inning win? Or would they still have resumed the game today? I know that before the recent rule change, it would have been an eight-inning game either way, but now I'm not so sure. Do all suspended games get resumed, or just those that are tied?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Zvon wrote: Hmmm. If I start tomorrows IGT now, then we will win this one, right? Is that how it works?

This was the first thing I wondered about too. I we wil hafta stay right here until this one is over, then be prepared for a lickety split 5/25 gamer.

[Frayed Knot]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: If the Mets hadn't tied the game in the bottom of the eighth, would the Braves have had an eight-inning win? Or would they still have resumed the game today? I know that before the recent rule change, it would have been an eight-inning game either way, but now I'm not so sure. Do all suspended games get resumed, or just those that are tied?

What changed in the rule was that a tie game no longer simply gets wiped off the books entirely and gets replayed from scratch. Everything else, as far as I know, remains the same.

So, yeah, had the Mets not scored after a complete 8th inning the Braves would have won an 8 inning game. But the 'whole 8th inning' thing comes into play because the Braves had scored twice in their half of the 8th. It used to be that they would have only counted completed innings meaning you'd revert to the game as it was at the end of the 7th which puts us right back into a tie situation.

So if the game had been stopped while the Mets were batting but before they tied it ... then what?
A - Do they suspend it as a tie and replay starting at the beginning of the 8th?
B - Or do they suspend it and pick up exactly where they left off?
C - and had the Braves led after 7 would they be declared the winner even if the game were called in mid-inning w/the Mets batting via the old revert to the last full inning logic?

I think B is the right answer but I'm not entirely sure.

[Edgy MD]

Terry explains that he was "so excited" that Hefner was pitching so well that he had to get him out of there. So, not getting Hefner a loss somehow took subtle precedence over not getting the team a win.

What is wrong with our country?

[metirish]

Edgy MD wrote: Terry explains that he was "so excited" that Hefner was pitching so well that he had to get him out of there. So, not getting Hefner a loss somehow took subtle precedence over not getting the team a win. What is wrong with our country?

Ron opined the exact thing when SNY showed Hefner shaking hands with Collins....although he said it was about getting Hef a won.....either way it's a bullshit call.