MLB Giants Edge Astros 3-2 in 12: Should Baseball End in Sudden Death?

by Fef Posted 2012/07/15 19:00:00

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Baseball games can last hours without any runs. Many Americans complain that baseball takes too long and bores them. Fans watching Saturday night's MLB baseball game between the San Francisco Giants and the Houston Astros watched for four hours because the game went into extra innings.

Baseball games usually last only nine innings. If the regulation game ends in a tie, the teams continue playing extra innings. Each team gets a chance at bat (offense.) Major League Baseball (MLB) rules provide play shall continue until either 1) the visiting team has scored more total runs than the home team at the end of a completed inning or 2) the home team scores the winning run in an uncompleted inning.

Should baseball change its rules to end the game upon the first run batted in?

FOXNEWS.COM reports:
Hector Sanchez had a game-winning RBI single in the bottom of the 12th, Tim Lincecum tossed eight scoreless innings, and the Giants edged the Astros, 3-2, on Saturday at AT&T; Park.

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cmdrbnd007 2012/07/15 12:36:09

No

+5
Absolutely not! That would ruin the game.
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Nameless to Christian 2012/07/16 05:25:30

That wasn't the question. Are you a fan of the game or of the NYY? There is a difference. I am a fan of the game first and foremost - followed by my love of the Boston Red Sox, which has been since the fall of 1963. (By the way, my inquiry was an honest one. I have many friends who are NYY fans.) True fans of the game won't make a definitive statement about who will win the division or the WS until other teams are mathematically eliminated. It's why all 162 regular season games are played. The NYY are looking very good this year, but the Rangers will be a force with which to be reckoned. It will be interesting to see how the second half of the season plays itself out - and if the Red Sox can get some players back and maintain some sense of health - we may be in the running for the WC. It's not impossible to catch the NYY, but I wouldn't bet on it, right now.

If one is a true fan of the game, then it's easy to comprehend the importance of keeping the game as it is in it's played format. I absolutely love the game. I am a pretty good sport and very seldom boo a player - even of the opposing team. If a player makes an outstanding play, I'll give him kudos for doing so. Props to those spectacular and well-timed plays, no matter who makes them.

Baseball, imo, is a micro...

That wasn't the question. Are you a fan of the game or of the NYY? There is a difference. I am a fan of the game first and foremost - followed by my love of the Boston Red Sox, which has been since the fall of 1963. (By the way, my inquiry was an honest one. I have many friends who are NYY fans.) True fans of the game won't make a definitive statement about who will win the division or the WS until other teams are mathematically eliminated. It's why all 162 regular season games are played. The NYY are looking very good this year, but the Rangers will be a force with which to be reckoned. It will be interesting to see how the second half of the season plays itself out - and if the Red Sox can get some players back and maintain some sense of health - we may be in the running for the WC. It's not impossible to catch the NYY, but I wouldn't bet on it, right now.

If one is a true fan of the game, then it's easy to comprehend the importance of keeping the game as it is in it's played format. I absolutely love the game. I am a pretty good sport and very seldom boo a player - even of the opposing team. If a player makes an outstanding play, I'll give him kudos for doing so. Props to those spectacular and well-timed plays, no matter who makes them.

Baseball, imo, is a microcosm of life and I've loved it since I was a little girl listening to it on the radio. It's a game which I used to teach my autistic daughter about history, biology, anatomy and physiology, algebra, geometry, physics... My family history is long linked to baseball as I am a 4th generation fan - and raise a 5th.

Anyway, back to the question... fan of the game or just of the NYY?
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Christian to Nameless 2012/07/16 05:30:17

When your from the Bronx you do. Your friends are probably transplants that watched Seinfeld and begged Daddy for the money to get an apartment in NYC..lol

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Nameless to Christian 2012/07/16 05:48:54

I'm not playing this with you. (Oh, and my friends are season ticket holders. Some in the upper seats, 3B line area. Other friends have season tickets in the Legends seats and have been NYY fans for as long as I have loved my Red Sox.) I'll be in a Legends Suite seat behind the Vistors' dugout this coming weekend. Enjoy!

You don't know much about the actual game, do you? That was rhetorical, btw. I was going to try to have civil discourse with a fan of the game, but...

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Christian to Christian 2012/07/16 06:53:38
Ron in Oregon 2012/07/15 14:08:48

No

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If you change the rules to sudden death you will get a game like soccer.

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Playerazzi 2012/07/15 13:56:09

No

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No way. Keep it like it is. It's one of the interesting aspects of the sport.

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Andy Fletcher 2012/07/15 12:52:47

No

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If baseball bores you after TWENTY innings then here's a hint...you probably don't like baseball. The only change baseball needs is to dump the designated hitter and do more about steroids.

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bob 2012/07/15 12:44:01

No

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It has alway been sudden death if a team is behind at the end of inning after the 9th they lose.

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cmdrbnd007 2012/07/15 12:36:09

No

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Absolutely not! That would ruin the game.

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Torchmanner ~PWCM~JLA 2012/07/15 12:03:27

Yes

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Either that or speed the game up. I only watch football.

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Dzeeng 2012/07/15 11:36:44

Yes

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I prefer playing than watching

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wildcat 2012/07/15 09:22:25

No

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all you all and your immediate gratification, let the game be played the way it was meant to be played. If it was sudden death the team up to bat first would have too great of an advantage.

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clasact 2012/07/15 09:00:10

Yes

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I cant make it through 5 inning let alone extras

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☆The Rock☆ * AFCL* The Sher... 2012/07/15 08:53:04

Yes

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I rather play then watch it..I get bored after they keep fouling off!!!

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