9 inning HS baseball??
High School baseball is only seven innings, so therewould be no "bottom of the ninth" like in this film. A little accuracy would be nice.
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Wrong...Welcome to earth where different school districts do different things.
How about this one. Here in some parts of Texas we played the full sixty minutes of a football game.
That is because Texas uses NCAA rules for HS football but like 45 other states use NFHS rules. If I remember correctly, very few states play other than NFHS rules, and I know Texas is one.
Besides, the story takes place in California, in which I live and actually umpire HS baseball, which is only seven innings, unless tied.
Could've easily been extra innings
shareNot likely in this game.
7 inning baseball in high school is a relatively new thing.. This movie is 24 years old... 9 innings was common then, it was changed to protect the arms of young pitchers.... nice try though
shareIt was only seven innings when I played HS baseball in the 1970s. Oh yeah, I have been umpiring HS baseball for 21 years, scouting for 10 before that and played four years prior. If HS baseball was nine innings, it happened in way before I was involved. NFHS rules, since I have been involved (I am in my fouth decade), has been seven innings. BTW, NFHS stands for National Federation of High School Associations and here is their website: www.nfhs.org
One other thing, many HS facilities do not have lights and must start about 3:15 before time change. Sometimes we are lucky to get in seven innings before it gets dark.
Also in intercollegiate baseball, some conferences may play a double header and the second (or either one of the games) just may be only seven innings. For decades, the old Pacific Coast League, played seven games a week in the same city and on Sundays they would play a nine-seven doubleheader.
Wrong. I played high school baseball around the time this film was made, and our games were always nine innings.
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You were not playing NFHS rules, then.
You may have played Connie Mack and/or American Leagion but you were not playing for your high school team in a officially sanctioned by a state association league/team. You wer playing "summer ball."
I have no idea what rules our league played under, but it was indeed high school baseball, not summer ball, and we played in a league comprising all the major high schools in the area.
Besides, your post says "High School baseball is only seven innings," and in our league it clearly was not.
yippee-kai-yay #6
I have know idea what state you are from, but I have been involved with HS baseball at many different levels, coach, scout, player, and umpire since the early 1970s and still continue today.
Either your state, or part of that state does not follow NFHS rules and must be associated with another organization governing your interscholastic play such as NCAA (which does play nine innings) or American Legion and Connie Mack (both groups have nine inning games, but play under OBR - Official Baseball Rules which is used in professional baseball as well as PONY, CABA, USABA, Dixie Youth, Babe Ruth, and similar organizations).
BTW, this movie does take place in California, in which both the City Section (LAUSD schools) and the Southern Section (567 sachools in Southern California)of the CIF are both members of the NFHS and play NFHS rules for HS competition and play only seven innings.
Who gives a crap? It's a movie!!!!!!! It's not real!!!!!! Who cares if it takes some dramatic license? You must be a fun date!!
shareYeah, same here. I was in high school not too long before this film was made, I was on the baseball team, and we played nine innings, too.
shareI played high school baseball in California in the 1980's and we played nine innings, even our JV team played nine. Maybe things are different now.
shareYou may have played Connie Mack or American Legion baseball which is and/or has been nine innings. However, I really doubt it was your March to May HS baseball season and certainly not in the CIF and interscholastic ball.
I played baseball in Southern California, and we were Prep League Champs in 1978 and lost in the semis of the CIF-Southern Section Playoffs and all of our games were 7 innings, unless we played extra innings or shortened by daylight or weather.
I played in the SF Bay Area. It was high school baseball. 1982-1986. I just talked to a buddy of mine (who played with me) and he said he thinks it was seven, though he's not 100% certain. So I'm willing to accept you guys are probably right. Is memory the first thing to go? Oh well.
shareEven if highschool baseball ALWAYS & EVERYWHERE had 7 innings, most average movie-goers would say "Bottom of the seventh?? There are still two innings left."
It's called dramatic license.
This movie is loaded with errors like that. No Laker game would ever start at 10pm.
And no one can open a bank account in another person's name...
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