Talk:Doubleheader (baseball)

message: I added that The Elias Sports Bureau does not include "Day-Night" doubleheaders in their record books as real doubleheaders.  This came up after one played on August 18-19, 2006 when the New York Yankees and the Boston Redsox played the longest nine inning game by time in major league history, 4 hours and 45 minutes.  It was the back end of a day-night doubleheader.  The first game went 3 hours and 55 minutes which would have meant the two teams played a total of 8 hours and 40 minutes of baseball.  Had this been considered a real doubleheader it would have shattered the record of 7 hours and 39 minutes set by the Texas Rangers and Chicago Whitesox in Chicago on May 24, 1995.Baseball Almanac Game Length Records http://www.baseball-almanac.com/recbooks/rb_gmlg.shtml
Elias does not consider a doubleheader two games in which the park is cleared in between games.
NY Yankees 14, Boston 11 recap http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/recap;_ylt=Ao60xVkrqZaWer6foMBzMvURvLYF?gid=260818302&prov=ap
Jny 13:15, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Day-Night Doubleheaders 

message: If roughly 50% of doubleheaders are sweeps, that's exactly what you would expect if the teams were equally likely to win each game, and each game is viewed as an independent event.  Basically there's nothing interesting about 50% of doubleheaders ending in a sweep. 
Jhhays 17:51, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Swept doubleheaders 

message: Cited references
This is not true.  The probability of winning an individual game is not the same as the aggregate probability of winning two straight games.  The Phillies, for example, are a better team than my Nationals.  They play each other 18 times a year.  There is a better than 50 percent chance that the Phillies will win any given game against the Nationals.  By the logic above, there should be a better than 50 percent chance that the Phillies will win all 18 games, which is of course virtually impossible.  In fact, if there is a 60 percent chance that the Phillies will win each game, the aggregate chance that they will sweep a doubleheader is only .6 X .6 or 36 percent.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Keacla1 (talk • contribs) 12:22, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Notes and references

message: If you look at the MLB schedules from the early 1960s, you find that Sundays and holidays usually had doubleheaders. I assume that the reason for no longer scheduling doubleheaders was the transition from propeller to jet as the standard passenger plane. Or is there another reason? Dynzmoar (talk) 00:44, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why the decline? 

message: Seems to me that [Joe McGinnity]'s feats deserve mention under this topic. McGinty pitched both ends of five doubleheaders in his career. In his first two attempts, both for Baltimore in 1901, he had split decisions: against Milwaukee on September 3 and Philadelphia on September 12. Then in 1903, while playing for the Giants, he swept six games in the three doubleheaders he threw in a single month: against Boston on August 1; against Brooklyn on August 8; and against Philadelphia on August 31. This is far more notable than home-and-home doubleheaders which are simply a scheduling aberration, whereas what McGinnity did is not likely to ever be repeated.Allreet (talk) 15:57, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Here's the record of all iron man stints: https://prestonjg.wordpress.com/2009/09/12/a-thorough-account-of-pitchers-who-have-started-both-games-of-a-doubleheader-in-the-major-leagues/. As for a source on McGinnity's performance: Doubleheaders: A Major League History Allreet (talk) 18:45, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Iron Joe McGinnity 

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message: Does anyone have access to single-day stats? Most hits, RBIs, KOs, etc? DOR (HK) (talk) 22:11, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  One-Day Stats