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Old Tue Jul 26, 2016, 05:20pm
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Originally Posted by Dakota View Post
Well, true. MSHSL has a 10 after 5 mercy rule. But, mercy rules are useless if both teams are awful!

After one particularly brutal game last year, I was proposing a 25 after 5 umpire mercy rule:

The game is over if:
1. The runs scored by both teams combined is 25 or more runs after 5 innings;
2. The average time per inning for the first 5 innings is 25 or more minutes.

I guess that would apply to my 3 hr 26 min game, at 33 - 23.
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