Suspended game
[5] Since then, games have rarely been suspended for those reasons: the most recent suspension due to curfew occurred in 1998, and for darkness in 1987.
[c] The above can result in a player having statistics from games that pre-date when he joined a team or made his major-league debut.
A number of suspended games in major league history have been notable due to unusual circumstances or statistical oddities.
George Brett had apparently hit a home run for a 5–4 lead for his Kansas City Royals over the New York Yankees.
A successful protest to American League president Lee McPhail reinstated the home run and negated the out, but as play had long since ended it became a suspended game.
[13][14] On April 20, 1986, the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Chicago Cubs were tied at 8–8 after 13 innings when the umpires suspended the game, being played at Wrigley Field (which still lacked lights), on account of darkness.
[17] An unusual suspended game involving the Minnesota Twins occurred on Saturday and Sunday, October 2 and 3, 2004.
[19] The game of April 28, 2008, between the Baltimore Orioles and Chicago White Sox, was suspended at the end of the 11th inning, tied 3–3, and not resumed until August 25.
Joel Hanrahan had pitched the top of the 11th for Washington, and in the interim had been traded to Pittsburgh for Nyjer Morgan; he remained the pitcher of record and earned the win when Morgan scored (he pinch-ran for Elijah Dukes, who was no longer on the Washington roster) on a throwing error by Miguel Tejada.
[25] On August 31, 2014, the Cleveland Indians were playing the Kansas City Royals at Kauffman Stadium with the score tied, 2–2, at the end of regulation.
As inclement weather began to approach, officials attempted to finish the game and were able to complete the top half of the tenth with the Indians taking a two-run advantage, 4–2.
The resumption of the game took place on September 22 at Progressive Field because of scheduling; neither team had an off day that coincided with the other and this was their final series match-up of the season.
The Royals scored one run in the inning and lost, 4–3, as the "home" team completing the game in their opponent's ballpark.
The league scheduled the resumption during the Tigers' visit to Oakland in order to avoid having the Athletics make a return trip to Detroit.
On July 27, catcher Danny Jansen (who was at bat for Toronto when the game was suspended) was traded from the Blue Jays to the Red Sox.
[35][36] Red Sox manager Alex Cora later stated that he intended to use Jansen in the continuation of the suspended game.
[37] On August 26, Jansen became the first player in major-league history to play for both teams in the same game,[e] when he entered the resumed game as Boston's catcher, while Daulton Varsho batted in the spot previously occupied by Jansen in Toronto's batting order, and Brian Serven took over at catcher for Toronto.
