OFFICIAL BASEBALL RULES

Rule 7.01 to 7.02League Championship Series or World Series games or for anyadditional Major League championship season game played tobreak a tie.(g) (4.11) The score of a regulation game is the total number ofruns scored by each team at the moment the game ends.(1) The game ends when the visiting team completes itshalf of the ninth inning if the home team is ahead.(2) The game ends when the ninth inning is completed, ifthe visiting team is ahead.(3) If the home team scores the winning run in its half ofthe ninth inning (or its half of an extra inning after a tie),the game ends immediately when the winning run isscored.EXCEPTION: If the last batter in a game hits a homerun out of the playing field, the batter-runner and allrunners on base are permitted to score, in accordancewith the base-running rules, and the game ends whenthe batter-runner touches home plate.APPROVED RULING: The batter hits a home run outof the playing field to win the game in the last half ofthe ninth or an extra inning, but is called out for passinga preceding runner. The game ends immediatelywhen the winning run is scored, unless there are twoout and the winning run has not yet reached homeplate when the runner passes another, in which casethe inning is over and only those runs that scoredbefore the runner passes another shall count.(4) A called game ends at the moment the umpire terminatesplay, unless it becomes a suspended game pursuantto (Rule 7.02(a) (Rule (4.12(a)).7.02 (4.12) Suspended Games(a) A game shall become a suspended game that must be completedat a future date if the game is terminated for any of thefollowing reasons:84