Crazy Double-header - a rare first in baseball history?

[Wingedlion14]

Playing in my Yankees dynasty, I just had what may be a first in baseball history. Both games in a double-header ended on walk-off home runs...but a different team won each game.

Game 1 was a Boston home game, despite the game being played at Yankee Stadium, as it was a makeup game from earlier in the season. Matt Dominguez hit a walk-off 3-run HR off David Robertson in the bottom of the 9th to win the game 5-3.

Game 2 was a normal Yankee home game. Ronald Torreyes hit a 2-run walk-off HR in the bottom of the 10th to give the Yankees a 4-2 win.

This is probably the weirdest thing I've ever seen happen in an OOTP game.

[RedbirdFan6]

Just when you think you've seen it all!

[Germaniac]

It will be hard to duplicate this in real life as these kinds of double-headers rarely happen in real life (if at all) ...

And then ending on a walk-off HR for the respective home team

[Le Grande Orange]

Originally Posted by Germaniac

It will be hard to duplicate this in real life as these kinds of double-headers rarely happen in real life (if at all) ...

In OOTP, it happens because the game cannot do what most commonly happens in real life, which is the game being made up in the other club's park, with that other club being the home team (i.e. batting second). OOTP mandates all clubs must play out their full slate of home games, so in make up situations it'll have one game in one club's park and the other game in the other club's park on the same day.

What happens in real life in the majors (and a few minors) since 2007 is that a postponed game might be made up in the other club's park BUT the home team will bat first. This is compensation for the fact that the club is losing out on a home game, so while it can't play in its own park, it can at least get the benefit of batting second.

So, for example, say a CLE at DET game is postponed. That game gets made up as DET at CLE. Prior to 2007, in that make up game CLE would bat second since it is the home team. Beginning in 2007, now that DET at CLE game has CLE batting first even though the game is taking place in Cleveland and CLE is considered the home team for statistical purposes. This means it is a case of the home team batting first.

In 2007 the rules stipulated the first game of such a doubleheader would be the make up game and the second game the regularly scheduled game. This actually contravened a long-standing baseball rule, which is that the second game of a doubleheader is always considered the make up game. So for following seasons the home team would bat first in the second game rather than the first.

(The exception are day-night doubleheaders which are considered two separate games, and thus a make up game would be the opposite of whichever was the regularly scheduled game for the date.)

[Wingedlion14]

Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange

In OOTP, it happens because the game cannot do what most commonly happens in real life, which is the game being made up in the other club's park, with that other club being the home team (i.e. batting second). OOTP mandates all clubs must play out their full slate of home games, so in make up situations it'll have one game in one club's park and the other game in the other club's park on the same day.

What happens in real life in the majors (and a few minors) since 2007 is that a postponed game might be made up in the other club's park BUT the home team will bat first. This is compensation for the fact that the club is losing out on a home game, so while it can't play in its own park, it can at least get the benefit of batting second.

So, for example, say a CLE at DET game is postponed. That game gets made up as DET at CLE. Prior to 2007, in that make up game CLE would bat second since it is the home team. Beginning in 2007, now that DET at CLE game has CLE batting first even though the game is taking place in Cleveland and CLE is considered the home team for statistical purposes. This means it is a case of the home team batting first.

In 2007 the rules stipulated the first game of such a doubleheader would be the make up game and the second game the regularly scheduled game. This actually contravened a long-standing baseball rule, which is that the second game of a doubleheader is always considered the make up game. So for following seasons the home team would bat first in the second game rather than the first.

(The exception are day-night doubleheaders which are considered two separate games, and thus a make up game would be the opposite of whichever was the regularly scheduled game for the date.)

Both games were played at Yankee Stadium, so I think starting in OOTP 18 (which is what I was playing) it simulates it properly.

[Le Grande Orange]

Originally Posted by Wingedlion14

Both games were played at Yankee Stadium, so I think starting in OOTP 18 (which is what I was playing) it simulates it properly.

You'd have to check the listing of home games for each club to see if all the clubs ended up with 81 games. You'd also have to check to see exactly which postponed game was being made up.