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Gosh, how quickly facts get skewed; in this case, just a typo, but anyone checking up on this online will find the article on Fox stating "Boston Red Sox against Brooklyn in 1914" but Baseball Almanac page on the 1914 WS doesn't list a 14-inning game; this San Francisco Giants page gives the correct year. Bill 11:51, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
I removed some uncited original research the other day and was reverted. I can only assume this was an accident, as the reverting editor is well established, understands WP policy on sourcing and didn't respond when I asked about the edit on his talk page. I'll go ahead and take the material out again. If there's any objection, I hope it can be addressed here first. — Bdb484 (talk) 06:17, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
Taking a look at what you deleted:
Two minor consequences of this situation are that
Cricket
The concept of extra innings does not exist in
cricket: a match that ends with both sides all out with an identical number of runs is a tie. Due to the high-scoring nature of the game, tied matches are very uncommon, having occurred
only twice in the history of
Test cricket and rarely in other levels of the game. Much more common is a draw, which occurs if no
result is obtained before the scheduled end of the match. Assuming this is factually correct, I don't see a reason to exclude it. The term "innings" is used in both baseball and cricket.
← Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 07:21, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
"The longest game by innings in Major League Baseball was a 1-1 tie in the National League between the Boston Braves and Brooklyn Dodgers in 26 innings, at Braves Field in Boston on May 1, 1920. It had become too dark to see the ball (fields did not have lights yet and the sun was setting), and the game was considered a draw. Remarkably, by modern standards, the game time was only 3 hours and 50 minutes. The game had started at 3:00 p.m., as was the custom in those days, and it was approaching 10:00 p.m. the next day when the game ended. Home plate umpire Barry McCormick decided to call the game when he observed lights appearing in the windows of buildings across the Charles River."
It looks as if a sentence got dropped in here. The 1920 game beginning at 3 p.m. and running short of four hours wouldn't have extended to 10 p.m. nor to the next day. WHPratt ( talk) 18:43, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
The article makes to incompatible statements: "On April 15, 1968, the Houston Astros defeated the Mets 1-0 in a 24-inning game at the Houston Astrodome. The 6-hour, 6-min. contest, which ended with the Astros' Bob Aspromonte hitting a grounder through the legs of Mets shortstop Al Weis in the bottom of the 24th, remains the longest shutout game in Major League history" AND "The longest scoreless period within a completed game came on August 1, 1918, when the Pittsburgh Pirates and Boston Braves remained scoreless through 20 innings before the Pirates scored two runs in the top of the 21st and held on for the 2-0 victory." If the final score of the Astros/Mets game was 1-0 after 24 innings, then the game would have been scoreless for 23 innings, which is longer than the 20 innings of the Pirates/Braves game.
Shouldn't the statement about the Pirates/Braves game be deleted or at least qualified? — Preceding unsigned comment added by BradGad ( talk • contribs) 21:52, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
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Gosh, how quickly facts get skewed; in this case, just a typo, but anyone checking up on this online will find the article on Fox stating "Boston Red Sox against Brooklyn in 1914" but Baseball Almanac page on the 1914 WS doesn't list a 14-inning game; this San Francisco Giants page gives the correct year. Bill 11:51, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
I removed some uncited original research the other day and was reverted. I can only assume this was an accident, as the reverting editor is well established, understands WP policy on sourcing and didn't respond when I asked about the edit on his talk page. I'll go ahead and take the material out again. If there's any objection, I hope it can be addressed here first. — Bdb484 (talk) 06:17, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
Taking a look at what you deleted:
Two minor consequences of this situation are that
Cricket
The concept of extra innings does not exist in
cricket: a match that ends with both sides all out with an identical number of runs is a tie. Due to the high-scoring nature of the game, tied matches are very uncommon, having occurred
only twice in the history of
Test cricket and rarely in other levels of the game. Much more common is a draw, which occurs if no
result is obtained before the scheduled end of the match. Assuming this is factually correct, I don't see a reason to exclude it. The term "innings" is used in both baseball and cricket.
← Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 07:21, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
"The longest game by innings in Major League Baseball was a 1-1 tie in the National League between the Boston Braves and Brooklyn Dodgers in 26 innings, at Braves Field in Boston on May 1, 1920. It had become too dark to see the ball (fields did not have lights yet and the sun was setting), and the game was considered a draw. Remarkably, by modern standards, the game time was only 3 hours and 50 minutes. The game had started at 3:00 p.m., as was the custom in those days, and it was approaching 10:00 p.m. the next day when the game ended. Home plate umpire Barry McCormick decided to call the game when he observed lights appearing in the windows of buildings across the Charles River."
It looks as if a sentence got dropped in here. The 1920 game beginning at 3 p.m. and running short of four hours wouldn't have extended to 10 p.m. nor to the next day. WHPratt ( talk) 18:43, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
The article makes to incompatible statements: "On April 15, 1968, the Houston Astros defeated the Mets 1-0 in a 24-inning game at the Houston Astrodome. The 6-hour, 6-min. contest, which ended with the Astros' Bob Aspromonte hitting a grounder through the legs of Mets shortstop Al Weis in the bottom of the 24th, remains the longest shutout game in Major League history" AND "The longest scoreless period within a completed game came on August 1, 1918, when the Pittsburgh Pirates and Boston Braves remained scoreless through 20 innings before the Pirates scored two runs in the top of the 21st and held on for the 2-0 victory." If the final score of the Astros/Mets game was 1-0 after 24 innings, then the game would have been scoreless for 23 innings, which is longer than the 20 innings of the Pirates/Braves game.
Shouldn't the statement about the Pirates/Braves game be deleted or at least qualified? — Preceding unsigned comment added by BradGad ( talk • contribs) 21:52, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
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