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Originally Posted by RchW
I believe CIN was the home team in SF a few weeks ago.
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See my (now edited) prior post. By rule the Giants were the home team even though the other rule required them to bat first in the makeup game. (The linked MLB articles concur with this.)
Retrosheet categorizes this as "HTBF" or Home Team Bats First. It used to occur with some frequency in the 19th century but then fell out of favour in the early 20th century.