BOSTON -- The start of Monday’s continuation of a suspended game between the Red Sox and Blue Jays at Fenway Park was history making. The Blue Jays sent up center fielder Daulton Varsho to pinch-hit for Danny Jansen, who had an 0-1 count when play was stopped due to rain

The game was first suspended due to weather on June 26th, and Danny Jansen was traded back in July. The game resumed on August 26th - with him now playing for the other team.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    20·
    2 months ago

    The people responsible for writing Trivial Pursuit cards and Jeopardy questions are having the best morning.

  • steventhedev@lemmy.worldOP
    17·
    2 months ago

    I thought of something: does this count as him having played a single game that is both a loss and a win? Or as playing in two games?

    Some poor soul is going to try to do data validation and figure out that the number of wins plus the number of losses does not equal the number of games played, and it’s 100% legit.

    • sircac@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 months ago

      My 2 cents of logic is that the first part would only apply to its individual scores and stats, not the team ones: the second part of the match will determine the winning team, nothing was decided in the first part, so no win/lose condition can apply to its previous half-match, and when the victory was defined he got a defined team…

    • AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      2 months ago

      Okay, I’m really curious how this will work officially. I’m one of those nerds who think it’s kinda neat that you can watch an entire baseball game in an Excel spreadsheet.

      Is there any interest in a FOSS baseball/softball scorebook that can calculate stuff for you? Might be a fun project.