Thread: Mercy Rule
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Old Sun Jul 20, 2008, 10:26am
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Originally Posted by Skahtboi
I think that this is where we need to use a little common sense. How fair would it be for a visiting team, who may have been behind by one run going into the sixth inning, to have a really top of the sixth where they scored enough runs to meet the need of the "runs ahead rule" and not give the home team a chance to answer? Not very fair. So yes, of course the home team gets their chance to bat in that inning.
Makes perfect sense. Thanks, all. Some leagues do override this rule though.
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