Scheduling Anomoly?

[RyDogg66]

It appears that the Braves opened up last night at Washington for the ever popular one game series. I dont think I have ever seen this before outside of a makeup game in the middle or end of the season.

 

Anyone know the rationale behind this? From what I can tell the schedules say that Washington is taking on Philly while the Braves are at Pittsburgh

[pitchleague]

I heard them say on XM yesterday that due to the Boston-Oakland series being bumped to Japan and earlier than other games, they asked many teams if they could take one game off of a later series and play it on Sunday night. With the stadium set to be finished on time, the Nationals responded the quickest and were "awarded" the game.

 

Or something like that.

[TheBwaz]

I think it was 2001 that we started with a one gamer against the Dodgers in LA. Can't say as I remember WHY. All I remember was that Sheffeild played for the Dodgers and my red haze of anger.

[trwi7]

Yep Brewers played the Dodgers one game in Los Angeles on April 2nd, 2001 and then had a 3 game series in Houston starting the following day.

[dadofandrew]

One game series are only allowed at the beginning of the season, or obviously in case of makeup games. It's usually done to get everyone's Opening Day done in the first week of the season.

[Big Reed]

I'm begining to find it harder to believe with all of these little scheduling quirks, that the AL and NL can't have 3 divisions of 5 teams each. I'm tired of people who say it can't be done, and then they go and make horrible schedules. i think if you apllied the information to a computer schedule making software, you'd probably find a schedule made out that is very similar to what MLB currently has. You could use a slight increase in interleague games as a buffer to make it work.

[dadofandrew]

Well, you can, but obviously you'd have to have an interleague series all the time, not to mention no one wants to change.