Talk:Doubleheader (baseball)

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[edit] Day-Night Doubleheaders

I added that The Elias Sports Bureau does not include "Day-Night" doubleheaders in their record books as real doubleheaders. This came up after one played on August 18-19, 2006 when the New York Yankees and the Boston Redsox played the longest nine inning game by time in major league history, 4 hours and 45 minutes. It was the back end of a day-night doubleheader. The first game went 3 hours and 55 minutes which would have meant the two teams played a total of 8 hours and 40 minutes of baseball. Had this been considered a real doubleheader it would have shattered the record of 7 hours and 39 minutes set by the Texas Rangers and Chicago Whitesox in Chicago on May 24, 1995.[1]

Elias does not consider a doubleheader two games in which the park is cleared in between games. [2]

Jny 13:15, 19 August 2006 (UTC)



[edit] Notes and references

Cited references

  1. ^ Baseball Almanac Game Length Records http://www.baseball-almanac.com/recbooks/rb_gmlg.shtml
  2. ^ NY Yankees 14, Boston 11 recap http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/recap;_ylt=Ao60xVkrqZaWer6foMBzMvURvLYF?gid=260818302&prov=ap
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