[Le Grande Orange]

I would point out from a realism perspective in professional baseball games are sometimes less than 9 innings long: the minor leagues have long used a rule which states that both games of a regular, single-admission doubleheader are only 7 innings long. (In earlier years the rule was often the first game was 9 innings and only the second game reduced to 7 innings.)

A regularly scheduled single game in the minors leagues can also be reduced to 7 innings if prior to that game a suspended game is completed if that suspended game had been suspended before 5 innings had been played.