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This year, MLB changed its rules so that a game that was tied after becoming a regulation game and was halted by rain would be a suspended game and not a tie game. Tie games have to be replayed in their entirety.
And we have our first suspended game of the season! The Brewers and Marlins waited out three rain delays before the umpires suspended the game with the score tied 2-2 with the Brewers getting ready to bat in the top of the 11th at Dolphins Stadium. The game will start at 7:05 pm ET and then the regularly scheduled game will start about 30 minutes later.
Tony Graffanino of the Breweres was kicked out of the game and, presumably, the umpires will make him sit in the clubhouse until the regularly scheduled game start.
From checking Retrosheet, it appears that this is the first time the Marlins have had a suspended game. The Brewers last had one on June 15, 2001 at home against Kansas City when a bank of lights went out at Miller Park.
http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2001/B07180SDN2001.htm
Which was very entertaining, because instead of just going out, a transformer in the lighting structure actually exploded in a ball of fire, which I happened to be looking at. The "1.8-header" the next day featured Randy Johnson setting the relief strikeout record (16, in 7 IP) while also providing the only time (I believe) that he and Curt Schilling pitched in the same real (not All-Star) game for the same team, other than this time, which some of you may be more familiar with:
http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2001/B11040ARI2001.htm
Game 2 also featured a bench-clearing brawl AND a Trevor Hoffman 4-run-lead, 1 out save. Excitement!
...I'm assuming both teams will start the suspended game with short benches, players in the same positions as where they left off, etc? Can the teams actually be made to put the same pitchers out there or will the managers (be forced/choose) to put in different ones?
A suspended game could be resumed months later with entirely different rosters for both teams. The only restriction is that you can't bring back players who have already been subbed for.
The Brewers won the regular game too.
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