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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] Swept doubleheaders

If roughly 50% of doubleheaders are sweeps, that's exactly what you would expect if the teams were equally likely to win each game, and each game is viewed as an independent event. Basically there's nothing interesting about 50% of doubleheaders ending in a sweep. Jhhays 17:51, 23 August 2007 (UTC)