MLB '11

[Motorboat Cruiser]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Stupid Nationals.

If they had been in contention, they'd have to play the makeup game with the Dodgers and give Kemp a final shot at 40/40. But nooooooo.

Yes, I'm also peeved that Kemp was robbed of those at bats.

Perhaps a dumb question, but how common is it for a team to not play 162 games in a season (strikes excluded)? It seems to me it wouldn't have been too hard to schedule a makeup of that lost game for today. Sure, it wouldn't have mattered in the standings, but both teams still got cheated out of a game.

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Motorboat Cruiser

Perhaps a dumb question, but how common is it for a team to not play 162 games in a season (strikes excluded)?

Over the last decade there have been 14 games that weren't made up.

2011: 1
2010: 0
2009: 1
2008: 3
2007: 0
2006: 1
2005: 0
2004: 2
2003: 1
2002: 5

While I would prefer they all get played, if I only got scheduled 20 days off in the course of a 181 day season (3 of which are the All Star break), many of which are used to travel, I can understand not particularly wanting to give one of them up when it won't impact the standings (especially if the missed game is late in the season when real contortions would be needed to get the game in).