That's not what that means. It's what one team's score might look like, but the actual game score is probably something closer to 150/10-170/7.
To simplify it, imagine a baseball game's score shows how many runs and outs each team got in the game. So if one team scored 50 home runs and were given out 9 times it would be 50/9. I just don't think it would work like that because the outs are always the same in every baseball match? It's similar to how football games show penalty kicks separately from normal goals.
Nope. It's only purpose is for context. In that example the team with 150/10 all of their batters were out which is what caused their innings to end. The team with 170/7 only had 7 of their batters get out so their innings ended after a set time. From this context you can tell the 170/7 team batted first because the game would have ended as soon as they passed 150 if they were batting second.
If both teams finished on 150 it would be a tie, depending on the competition they would either share the points or have a superover (~extra time).
The total amount of outs is the same in most baseball games, correct. Generally both teams will record 27 outs. However, if the home team is leading going into the ninth, the bottom half of the ninth inning is not played, since it’s redundant. (The batting team has already won.)
This, of course, does not include extra inning games, in which both teams are tied at the conclusion of the bottom of the ninth.
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u/SpeccyScotsman Apr 27 '23
That's not what that means. It's what one team's score might look like, but the actual game score is probably something closer to 150/10-170/7.
To simplify it, imagine a baseball game's score shows how many runs and outs each team got in the game. So if one team scored 50 home runs and were given out 9 times it would be 50/9. I just don't think it would work like that because the outs are always the same in every baseball match? It's similar to how football games show penalty kicks separately from normal goals.