If a game is called due to weather before it's official, are players' stats earned in the game eliminated?
373814
They are negated, a game and it's accompaning stats are not official until after the fifth inning.\nI hope that helps.
1128125
could be if they play a team game. A game doesn't stand on 1 player
427404
A player is allowed to make a certain number of challenges on line calls that they believe to be questionable.\n\nOnce a challenge has been made, the Shot Spot/Hawkeye Simulation shall be displayed. Shot Spot/Hawkeye works with many cameras in the air that take many pictures of the ball as it travels through the air. I believe Shot Spot/Hawkeye is 99% accurate.\n\nAnyway, if the player who challenged is correct, the point goes to the winner of the point according to the challenge. If the player who challenged is incorrect, they lost a challenge and nothing is done to modify the previous call.
1035899
it sucks...people responded poorly to my question as well....I DON'T WANT OFFICIALS TO BE CALLED ON DURING THE GAME...let them make their bad calls..they're gonna do that anyway...but if they make a GAME deciding call and it is controversial...get the press conference and make them  defend it...and justify or apologize for the bad call...
266625
are you playing 'hardball' with us? \n\nsix, just so it's an 'official' answer. (three per team)  \n\nother 'oddities' in baseball...\n\nfive innings for an 'official' game if rain or snow occurs.\n\n8 1/2 innings for an official game if the home team is ahead.
530712
I used to play in college.  Once a team is ahead by 10 runs AFTER THE 7TH INNING (if you're playing 9 inning games) then the game is over.  If you're only playing 7 inning games, then its after the 5th.  But most major conferences (ACC,SEC,PAC 10) don't have this rule.
1009412
Here is the actual criteria:\nOnly a pitcher that finishes the game (and isn't awarded a win) may receive a save. They get a save if they meet any one of the following three conditions: \n\n1) Pitch three innings, \n2) Pitch one inning with their team leading by three runs or fewer, or \n3) Pitch when the tying or winning run is on base, at bat, or on deck.
474983
Allowing anyone on base would destroy a perfect game, even if the runner was later doubled up or caught stealing. Let's put it this way: In 1917, Babe Ruth was pitching and walked the first batter of the game. Ruth was ejected for arguing balls and strikes. Ernie Shore comes in to pitch. The baserunner is caught stealing. Shore then retires the next 26 batters for a 27-up, 27-down game. Yet it is not considered an official perfect game by the statitcians at Major League baseball. For that matter, a rain-shortened game would not be considered an official perfect game either. You must go at least 9 innings, and the game must be perfect the whole way. Extra-inning games by Pedro Martinez and Harvey Haddix are no longer considered "perfect" because they were broken up in extra innings.
1079861
Rule 7.05 covers a player deliberately using a piece of his uniform to touch a batted ball, but I would imagine that doesn't apply here, especially as the first basemen is not making the put out.  I believe the runner is out.
320093
Actually, it depends WHEN the error occurred. \n\nIt IS possible for an earned run to score on a play that results in an error, but only under certain circumstances...\n\nIf, for example, there is a runner on third base, no outs, and the batter hits a ball in the hole at shortstop. The shortstop backhands the ball but his throw pulls the first baseman off the bag for an error (let's say we have a slow runner). The official scorer COULD rule that the runner would have scored even if the batter was out at first, therefore, that COULD be an earned run.\n\nThe definition of 'earned run' as explained in Wikipedia, appears below:\n\nEarned run\nFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\n\nIn baseball, an earned run is any run for which the pitcher is held accountable (i.e. the run did not score as a result of a fielding error or a passed ball). If a run is not earned, it is an unearned run. Even if a runner scores on a fielding error by the pitcher himself, it is an unearned run.\n\nEarned runs are specially denoted because of their use in calculating a pitcher's earned run average.\n\nIn determining earned runs, the official scorer must reconstruct the inning as it would have occurred without the errors (which include catcher's interference) and passed balls, with the benefit of the doubt always being given to the pitcher in determining which bases would have been reached by errorless play.\n\nA run is counted as unearned when:\n\n    * The baserunner would have been out had an error not been committed.\n    * The run is scored after an error is committed that would have made the third out\n    * A baserunner scores on a play where an error was committed, and the inning ends before that runner would have had a chance to score. Example: A passed ball allows a runner to score. The batter at the plate then strikes out to end the inning. The run is unearned. If the batter had instead got a base hit, the run would be earned, since the runner would have scored on that play.\n\nIn most other cases, a run is scored as an earned run.
719048
Wierd rule, but as someone who scores games, I understand it.\n\nThe catcher gets credit for a putout on a strikeout. If the catcher doesn't actually catch the ball, there can't really be a putout. The catcher than has to throw the batter out at first base and the person covering first gets the putout. The catcher gets an assist.
215189
No. The only stats that count toward a players career totals are those earned in the regular season and playoffs. Any exhibition contests, such as those in the preseason or the Pro Bowl, do not count toward a players overall stats.
75749
It is counted as a regular bump, thus it will not hurt your points. It would have given you points, however. It is common when a ball is bumped by a team into their own out-of-bounds for a team to bump their ball back into in-bounds so that it stays in play.
304816
No, do not tamper with the rules of baseball!  If they emulated the new hockey rules, we could see a situation like if a game were tied at the end of nine innings, they'd have three extra innings, then, if it were still tied, a homerun derby to determine the winner of the game!  (just like the new shootout after a five-minute overtime in hockey).  NO WAY!
978736
That's a good questions.  The answer is "NO".  They won't go away, you get points for anybody that you start during that week.   ITS ALL ABOUT WHO YOU START ON ANY PARTICULAR DAY.\n\nEven if you were to drop a player, whatever points that player contributed for that day will still be counted towards total points for the week. \n\nSince drops are effective the day after you drop the player, you will still get points for players that you start on the same day you drop them.  Hope this helps...Good Luck!!
967878
is'' to expect the result before the game starts''
1171482
tehre's a formula for it...\nit depends how much you run druing the game