Bleed Cubbie Blue · Apr 26, 2021
Outside The Confines: No no-no? Oh no!
Photo by Todd Kirkland/Getty ImagesAh, major league rule changes, aren’t they fun? This season, in order to expedite game times, MLB maintained the rule that all doubleheader games would be played as two seven-inning games rather than nine-inning games. These seven-inning games would be considered complete in terms of MLB game rules.
Except one thing no one considered when establishing this new rule was what would happen if a pitcher threw a no-hitter during one of those league-mandated seven-inning games. On Sunday night, that turned out to be something the league should have thought about ahead of time.