*Official* 8/4 Rain Helps Us Out Postgame Thread

[thomas35forever]

Now we can't blow it.

[hoosiersoxfan]

Does Noesi get credit for a complete game?

[doublem23]

Originally Posted by hoosiersoxfan

Does Noesi get credit for a complete game?

I think he does

[WhiteSox5187]

Originally Posted by doublem23

I think he does

EDIT: Nope! I was wrong. You still get a complete game if you pitch every inning in a rain shortened game.

[cub killer]

So the last rain delay lasted an hour until the game was called.

I thought that any stoppage after the middle or end of the 5th meant the game was over, provided someone was in the lead or led at the end of an inning (or half if home team) after the 5th. I think that should be the new rule.

Only 5 games back of Toronto in the W column

[Foulke You]

Originally Posted by cub killer

So the last rain delay lasted an hour until the game was called.

I thought that any stoppage after the middle or end of the 5th meant the game was over, provided someone was in the lead or led at the end of an inning (or half if home team) after the 5th. I think that should be the new rule.

Only 5 games back of Toronto in the W column

Just got back from soggy US Cellular Field. The bottom of the 6th was a pretty fun inning because the rain really started picking up and everyone knew this was basically the de facto bottom of the 9th so the crowd was hanging on every pitch. The game was likely to get called shortly afterward. Flowers really picked up Beckham and De Aza with that 2 RBI base hit. It was a fun game despite all the rain.

Speaking of Flowers, he is hitting something like .400 since the glasses and is really barreling up the ball right now. It can't be that simple, can it? I'm not sure if I'm buying into it but it is certainly nice to see some actual production out of the catcher spot even if it is just a hot streak.

Side note for anyone who was wondering: Alex Rios received polite applause from the crowd in his first AB and I heard no boos whatsoever.

[FielderJones]

Originally Posted by WhiteSox5187

EDIT: Nope! I was wrong. You still get a complete game if you pitch every inning in a rain shortened game.

You just don't get a no-hitter or a perfect game if it's rain-shortened, courtesy Bud's historical revisionism squad.

[chisoxfanatic]

Our best bullpen is the rain. Nice comeback.

[TDog]

Originally Posted by FielderJones

You just don't get a no-hitter or a perfect game if it's rain-shortened, courtesy Bud's historical revisionism squad.

You never did. Before Bud Selig bought the Brewers there was a separate honorable mention list for the no-hitters where the pitcher didn't have to go nine. Even before I was born, you had to pitch nine innings to get credit for a no-hitter. News agencies started giving credit to pitchers in the 1980s and 1990s who didn't go nine, but they ignored the fact that baseball never gave Dean Chance credit for his five-inning rain-shortened perfect game in 1967.

[lpneck]

Originally Posted by FielderJones

You just don't get a no-hitter or a perfect game if it's rain-shortened, courtesy Bud's historical revisionism squad.

Originally Posted by TDog

You never did. Before Bud Selig bought the Brewers there was a separate honorable mention list for the no-hitters where the pitcher didn't have to go nine. Even before I was born, you had to pitch nine innings to get credit for a no-hitter. News agencies started giving credit to pitchers in the 1980s and 1990s who didn't go nine, but they ignored the fact that baseball never gave Dean Chance credit for his five-inning rain-shortened perfect game in 1967.

Neither of these statements are accurate. Games WERE classified as no-hitters until the fall of 1991, when Fay Vincent commissioned the "Committee for Statistical Accuracy." That committee defined the requirement of a no-hitter as giving up zero hits in a completed game with a minimum of 9 innings pitched. It wiped out both Andy Hawkins 4-0 no-hit loss to the Sox and Melido Perez's 6-inning rain shortened no-hitter in New York from the 1990 season.

It's never made sense to me- if at the end of an official game, a team has zero hits, it seems to me it falls under the definition of a "NO hitter."