Talk:Forfeit (baseball)

MLB ban on promotional giveaways?

The article states that MLB has banned the distribution before the game of objects that could be thrown onto the the field. What is the source for this citation? In the past few years I have reached several different "throwable" giveaway items before a game including bats and baseballs. Perhaps this was true at one time but it seems to have been rescinded.Wkharrisjr (talk) 15:09, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Since there was no comments, I've removed the questionable line. Wkharrisjr (talk) 19:05, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

I'm unable to find promotions rules via google. As for he 1995 game, the 1996 Sporting News Baseball Guide discusses the forfeit on pages 154-155 but says nothing about any new rules. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 19:50, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

Forfeits in other sports

Perhaps interesting but not germane to the topic of the article: forfeits in baseball. If no objections, i will remove this section. Wkharrisjr (talk) 19:04, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

Perhaps a link to a separate article? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 19:27, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

Just removing the contents seem a bit unfair (especially given Quarterback kneel#Strategy linked there). I created Forfeit (sport) just to save it somewhere, at least. --Mormegil (talk) 17:15, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

9-0

We're always told that the final score of a forfeited game is recorded as 9-0, but does this have any significance at all? In the cases where a game was played out (or partially played out) the actual statistics are recorded, except for pitcher win and loss.

The only justification that I can come up with is that in some leagues, runs scored and/or runs allowed may be used as some kind of tiebreaker in the standings when teams finish with identical won-lost percentages. If the forfeit score goes into the equation in place of the actual score, the nine extra runs would favor the non-offending team. (However, if they were leading by more than nine runs when the other team forefeited they wouldn't be too pleased.)

However, runs don't affect Major League pennant races, so the forfeit score might as well be 100-0 for all that it matters. WHPratt (talk) 14:53, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

It's only symbolic, and goes back to the early days. MLB scoring rules specifically ignore the fanciful "9-0" and count the stats based on the situation:[1] ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 22:58, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

Is the article correct in stating that the score for a Little League forfeit is 7-0, when a regulation Little League game is only six innings? 72.104.146.188 (talk) 17:22, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

Baseball assessment comment

The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Forfeit (baseball)/Comments (baseball), and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

The forfeit summary here does NOT match the official MLB rules. This article includes the MLB rule extract and is significantly at odds with this Wikipedia article: Google Answers Major League Baseball (March 24, 2005) http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=499432

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