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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange
No, those are the (rather) old rules. If a game was called during an inning and the visiting team had either scored to tie the game or take the lead, and the home team had not yet completed its half of the inning, then the score would revert to the last completed inning (which could mean a victory for the home club depending on what the score was).
That rule was changed so that such games became suspended instead. If the home club is ahead in its half of the inning when the game is called, as long as it's a regulation game, it becomes a final result.
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Yes, the rule was changed the following year, but at the time, they were going to take the runs off, I was up at 4 am that night watching, and the Cardnals fought hard to get it called so they would get the win.
And although that rule has changed, the game the op is talking about can be seen as a simiar situation where a real life umpire crew might use their own judgment to avoid a controversial ending