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What happened to the mercy rule?
Posted on 3/1/09 at 3:23 pm
Posted on 3/1/09 at 3:23 pm
For college baseball.
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Posted on 3/1/09 at 3:24 pm to LSUfan2008
did they ever have one?
Posted on 3/1/09 at 3:26 pm to ksayetiger
Only in tournament play...10 runs after seven...but even that got pulled a few years back.
Posted on 3/1/09 at 3:26 pm to rpg37
I remember back in the 90's somewhere Ole Miss pounded us 13-2 and it was called after seven in the SEC tourney. 
Posted on 3/1/09 at 3:26 pm to rpg37
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Only in tournament play...10 runs after seven...but even that got pulled a few years back.
Thank you.
Posted on 3/1/09 at 3:29 pm to rpg37
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Only in tournament play
not like wiki is the end-all source, but they say the exact opposite:
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A mercy rule may be in use, which terminates play when one team is ahead by 10 or more runs after seven innings (6½ innings if the home team is winning). In games that are scheduled for seven innings the rule takes effect in the fifth. This rule is not used in NCAA tournament games. Several conferences institute this rule only on Sundays or the final day of a conference series, so that the visiting team can travel on time.
Posted on 3/1/09 at 3:29 pm to LSUfan2008
Those of us who watched LSU pound GATech by three touchdowns or so in the regionals back in the '90's would be hard pressed to think that there is such a rule.
This post was edited on 3/1/09 at 3:31 pm
Posted on 3/1/09 at 3:29 pm to LSUfan2008
Both teams can mutually agree to end it, happened vs. Southern a few years back I think when we were destroying them.
Posted on 3/1/09 at 3:32 pm to dickieVtheTiger
it used to happen in the sec tourny.
Posted on 3/1/09 at 3:36 pm to LSUfan2008
Still a rule in SEC tournament
Posted on 3/1/09 at 3:37 pm to Mr. Allman
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Or when Alabama beat LSU 20-something to 2 at the end of the regular season in 96.
28-2. I was at that game. Really sucked. It was in '97 though.
Posted on 3/1/09 at 3:39 pm to LSU
I meant SEC tournament. I remember one year where LSU played their first three games by the mercy rule.
Posted on 3/1/09 at 3:40 pm to LSU
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Or when Alabama beat LSU 20-something to 2 at the end of the regular season in 96. The Tigers definitely made up for it, though - beating that same Alabama team for the National Championship!
I remember that, we had some pretty sweet wins back then
Posted on 3/1/09 at 3:42 pm to Mr. Allman
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Or when Alabama beat LSU 20-something to 2 at the end of the regular season in 96.
I had successfully erased that from my memory until you brought it back up!
Posted on 3/1/09 at 5:18 pm to sml71
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Those of us who watched LSU pound GATech by three touchdowns
I got bored and went out and washed my car at the beginning of an inning, and came back 45 minutes later and LSU was still batting--amazing
Posted on 3/1/09 at 5:24 pm to LSUfan2008
It may have been temporarily used for SEC-T games. I remember that many teams didn't even want to play the championship game because they didn't want to wear out their pitchers before the NCAA playoffs began.
It may also have been temporarily used for Sunday games in the SEC as part of that whole airplane schedule kerfuffle, but it definitely doesn't exist now.
It may also have been temporarily used for Sunday games in the SEC as part of that whole airplane schedule kerfuffle, but it definitely doesn't exist now.
Posted on 3/1/09 at 6:20 pm to Doc Fenton
I seem to remember having mercy ruled stephen f Austin at the box when I was a kid? ( late 80s - early 90s)
Posted on 3/1/09 at 6:43 pm to LSUfan2008
Wrong gender and sport.
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