In baseball, what does "mercy rule" mean?

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Answer 1

It's a run rule that leagues or tournaments put into effect in order to regulate the lengths of games.  Usually it is 10 runs after 4 1/2 innings if the home team is ahead.  In some tournaments you will find it is 8 runs after 4 1/2 innings with the home team ahead.  Either way they have ot play an official game which is 4 1/2 innings.

Answer 2

ur winning by so much they call the game early this never happens in the mlb tho

Answer 3

it means that the two fattest kids from each team have to come out of the dugout and sumo wrestle. the winner of this match earns 600 flongs for his team. EX. - away team has 5 runs, and the home team has 1002, if the away teams fat kid wins the sumo match, the score is now 5 runs + 600 flongs to 1002, so the away team wins!

Answer 4

Usually happens when the Angels play the Yankees.  

Answer 5

Doesn't apply in professional baseball, but for "kids" games if one team is running up the score they can stop the game without further humiliation to the losing team.

Answer 6

When one team is getting beat to oblivion they can stop the match

Answer 7

well in little leagues it is if one team is beating another by at least 10 runs after five innings, fifteen runs after 4 innings, or 20 runs after 3 innings, the game is called to save some kind of mercy for the losing team.....

Answer 8

when a team is killing the other the game will stop!

Answer 9

mercy rule is a number of runs required to end the game.  If one team goes up a certain number of runs (10 or 15 typically) and the game is past the halfway point, unless the home team is down, the game is ended.

Answer 10

In youth baseball it is called the 10 run rule.

that is when a team is ahead by 10 or more runs after a certain inning, the game is over.

Answer 11

It means when a team is ahead by 10 or more runs the umpire has the authority to end the game.

Answer 12

U gettn your *** kicked by a lot but the mercy rule varies with diff leagues 10 runs through 5 15 runs through 3

Answer 13

A mercy rule, also well known by the slightly less polite term slaughter rule (or, less commonly, knockout rule and skunk rule), brings a sports event to an early end when one team has a very large and presumably insurmountable lead over the other team. The mercy rule is most common in games such as baseball or softball, where there is no game clock and play could theoretically continue forever, although it is also used in sports such as hockey, football, and American football. It is very rare in competitive sports beyond the high school level.

Answer 14

In some baseball leagues, there might be a rule to prevent a team from being too thoroughly embarrassed. It is called a mercy rule or a slaughter rule.

It might be a per-inning run limit (teams can only score 5 runs in a single inning or teams can only send 9 men to the plate in one inning), to keep the game from getting out of hand, or it might be a run-difference limit (once a team goes ahead by 10 runs, the game is over).

Answer 15

Well, I'm not sure if they have an official rule like that in Major League Baseball.

Maybe they have that rule in the Little Kids League.

Generally, that rule floats around in different kids leagues. In some leagues, it might be a 10-run lead for the home team and then declare the game after minimum of 50% of the game played. In some leagues, probably a 10 to 15 run lead.

So, as you see, it varies from leagues to leagues but I don't think this would apply to MLB

Hope that helps

Answer 16

Mercy rule is when a team is beating the other team by at least 10 runs. The game stops when you are winning by 10. Their is no mercy rule in the major leagues, however.

Answer 17

In amateur baseball when one team is getting the ever-living daylights beat out of them and at a certain amount of runs in a certain inning the game ends.