SUSUPENDED GAME QUESTION?

IF a game doesn't make it through ONE complete inning do you start the game over or does it pick up where it left off?

 

IN NC it picks up from where it stopped unless it is an official game

 

Thats interesting becuase the umpires informed us that the ruling was the game started over but it was up to our specific conference to decide.

 

Here is the rule staight from the NCHSAA handbook:

SUSPENDED GAMES:

North Carolina has adopted the suspended game rule, mandatory​

in all regular season and state playoff games. “A game called for any reason, where

a winner cannot be determined will be treated as a suspended game. If the game is to be

completed it will be continued from the point of suspension, with the lineup and batting
order of each team the same as the lineup and batting order at the moment of suspension,
subject to the rules of the game. If more than 4 1/2 innings have been played and a winner
can be determined, the game is over (including playoff games).” After 5 innings, if the
visiting team scores a tying or go ahead run in their top half of the inning and the home
team does not have an opportunity to bat or complete its time at bat, the game is treated
as a suspended game. If a game is called prior to the completion of a full inning after the
fifth inning, the game becomes a suspended game in the following situation: the visiting
team has scored one or more runs to tie the score or to take the lead, and the home team
has not tied the score or retaken the lead. PLAY - The sixth inning begins with score H-
6, V-5. Visitors score two runs in their half of the inning. Game is called because of rain
with (a) two outs in the bottom of the sixth and the score H-6, V-7; or (b) following the
completion of the home team’s turn at bat with the score H-6, V-7. RULING: In (a) the
game is suspended and resumed on the next possible date at the point of interruption. In
(b) the game is official, with the final score H-6, V-7. A suspended game does not count against the weekly limitations in the week in which it is completed.​

 

That is why it is called suspended!