Talk:Night game

Page contents not supported in other languages.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Actual times[edit]

There seems to be something missing. What is the border between a night game and a day game? Seven PM, is obviously a night game. Many games in the Central Time Zone start at 7 PM Eastern, which means they start at 6. If the average game lasts 2.5 hours, then they'd end at around 8:30, which is before sunset for most of the late spring to early fall. But that hits sunset, so 5PM? 5:30 PM? 4PM? As the days get shorter at the end of the baseball season, does the night game starting time recede? Do all sports use the same rules regarding the time of day? Could a baseball game that starts at the same time as a football game be counted differently in the two different sports? Does it matter where the cities are in their timezone, as sundown in Atlanta, for example, is about 15 minutes later than NYC? I know that if a day game goes late into extra innings and they have to turn on the lights, it's still considered a day game, but is that the case even if the majority of the game is then played in the dark? When they decide (although it's rare...but think the Pine Tar Incident, for one offhand example) to suspend a game and finish it later rather than call it, does a change in the time of the makeup game affect the status as either a day or night game?

There have to be rules somewhere, because definitive records are kept regarding a team's won-loss record in day games as oppose to night games, but what is the distinction? It should be addressed in the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:CDE3:1250:A524:14F7:7EE4:8733 (talk) 15:00, 15 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified[edit]

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 2 external links on Night game. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 18 January 2022).

  • If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
  • If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 18:46, 30 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Independence[edit]

In the middle of the baseball section there is a five paragraph proof on why Independence had the first night game despite clear citations above that they were not first. 2600:1702:2620:1C60:7817:A90F:1594:79F (talk) 14:50, 24 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Night_game&oldid=1204292198"