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How to have a scoreless draw in baseball
There’s a lot of old timey baseball things that don’t exist in the modern MLB. One notable one is ties. Now, it’s not that they didn’t play extra innings back in the early decades, they did. The issue was that for a long time stadiums did not have lights. Eventually, things got to a point where you literally could not play anymore. Leagues like NPB in Japan still have ties, but MLB has specifically created rules (the extra innings automatic runner) to ensure that games don’t go too long and end with a winner.
However, that wasn’t always the case. Sometimes, that could lead to some funny box scores, like this one from 1919.