Ah, 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.
During a Sunday game, Diamondbacks starter Madison Bumgarner threw a no-hitter against the Braves.