Baseball question

[ffutures]

What would happen if a baseball game was interrupted by e.g. Superman landing an airliner in the stadium and couldn't be resumed immediately? Do they abandon the game completely and play it again from scratch, or play out the remaining time etc. starting with the scores at the time the game was stopped?

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[ffutures.livejournal.com]

That's good enough, I'm just writing someone moaning (to Clark) about how it screwed up the whole season for the Dodgers...

[learnedhand-dj.livejournal.com]

I have a couple of suggestions as to why the missed game might have ruined the season for the Dodgers. The regular season usually ends around October 1, and if the Dodgers ended up missing the playoffs by one game, there are lots of different ways a postponement might have screwed up the season. For example, if the game was rescheduled, there could have been player injuries in the meantime that depleted the Dodgers, or the rescheduled game might have taken away an off day between a long string of games, causing extra fatigue and impacting player performance.

But, if it were my story, I'd probably go with the plane landing doing some damage to the outfield that wasn't discovered and repaired prior to playing the next game. If the star outfielder for the Dodgers wrecked his knee and was out for the season because he stepped in an unseen divot caused by the plane, that would seem the most likely thing that would have ruined the team's season. That would probably fit best with the timeline, too, because you could have the plane landing around 11 AM, have everyone cleared out by 4 PM or so, which would still allow that night's game to go off at the standard 7:10 PM time. Only having an hour or so to do any field repairs would explain why the damage wasn't found.

Probably far too much thought for what is obviously a minor point in your story, but I figured if I was going to bother to puzzle through it, I might as well share it.

[dsample.livejournal.com]

Or the Dodgers had been on a winning streak, and it ended after the airplane incident. Fans blamed Superman for ending the streak. (Baseball fans aren't always the most rational of people.)