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发帖数: 8590 | 1 Major League Baseball is approaching an arbitrary but fun milestone: its 200
,000th game of all time. Unless it reached that milestone a month ago. Or
last October.
The statistical website Baseball-Reference has been counting up to the
majors' 200,000th game. Through Sunday, the tally is 199,254 games, and the
site is predicting the milestone will be reached Sept. 24. But there are
some uncertainties about the total. Alternate ways of counting lead to the
conclusion that the 200,000th game already has happened—on one of two
aesthetically pleasing dates.
Baseball-Reference's count doesn't include games from the National
Association, an early-1870s precursor to the National League that many
consider a major league. Include NA games, and the 200,000th game occurred
on July 4, between the Cincinnati Reds and the St. Louis Cardinals.
But this count excludes postseason games, which is understandable but
subject to second-guessing. Playoff stats don't count toward career totals,
but playoff games are far more important than the average regular-season
game, and therefore could credibly be counted toward the total number of
games that have been played in baseball history.
Include the 1,293 playoff games in major-league history and NA games, and
the 200,000th game was Philadelphia Phillies starter Cole Hamels' shutout to
close out the Reds in their divisional series last October 10—10/10/10.
—Carl Bialik
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