Rain Delay?
I came across this post on Facebook the other day:
Let’s take a closer look.
Now, our best source for this is actually the Washington Times Herald. The 4-4 tie on May 8 was actually a really close game. Washington could have won it with a run here:
The game lasted almost 4 hours, and was only called after 11 innings to allow the Tigers to catch a train back to Detroit for a home game against the White Sox. And, yeah, this is the sort of problem that you just don’t hear about anymore these days.
Anyway, the new rule called for the game to be continued at some point in time, though it doesn’t seem that this ever actually happened.
Actually, when American League President Will Harridge looked at the rulebook again, he determined that the game needed to be replayed completely from scratch:
Now, I’m not sure precisely which game counts as the makeup game for this one. It seems to me, though, that one of the games of the Detroit at Washington doubleheader on July 15th likely counted as the makeup game, since it’s not listed in the original as-scheduled schedule.
If you’re doing a replay of your own, the best way to figure stuff like this out is to look beforehand. Make sure that the schedule you’re using has an even number of games for each team. And, if there’s a discrepancy, do a little bit of research and figure out if you need to add an extra game somewhere or other.
Even Baseball Reference does not show when this game was rescheduled.normally they list all rainouts and rescheduled games on a teams schedule page.sounds like you have a bit of a mystery there.
As luck would have it, I'm the person who wrote the original post you're citing. I started my 1952 APBA replay a couple of months ago. Am using actual real-life starting lineups for every game as best I can, considering not all players are carded.
I suppose I should have done more scheduling research on the season than I actually did. But before I chose '52, I had looked at the standings for that season. The only MLB teams to *not* play 154 games that year (according to the final standings) were Brooklyn and the Boston Braves. Since each had played 153, I knew there was a head-to-head rainout in there somewhere. I figured if I got to the end of my replay - and that missed game still mattered (more likely affecting the Dodgers than the Braves) - I would simply create/play it.
That's why I was surprised when I arrived at this May 8th game in the AL schedule and discovered the Tigers and Washington had played to a never-resolved tie. But am not quite sure what I would have done differently to prepare for that scenario.
In the end, I rolled the game using the lineups from May 8th, 1952. Was glad I did, because Nationals' pitcher Don Johnson threw a no-hitter. So that was exciting. At some point, I will also replay the real-life makeup game (although as Dale Weiers pointed out, I'm not exactly certain which future Detroit-Washington game that will be).
So, in the end, the Tigers and Nats will each play 155 games in my replay. And I'm okay with that.