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A lot of the rules in Major League Baseball don't make a lot of sense. For instance if a catcher picked up a ground ball with his equipment, the runners would advance three bases. That seems pretty arbitrary considering the catcher could literally vault the ball into the stands and hit someone, yet he would only get ejected.

Likewise, they have these things in baseball called "rain postponements." Normally if something happens in the middle of a game that forces it to be postponed -- like the lights burning out -- the game picks up a couple days or weeks later at the same spot in the game.

Not with rain though. If a game stops in the third inning because it's raining, the game is replayed from the beginning. Every stat or moment that happened in those three innings is gone. On March 31, Albert Pujols hit a home run in the second inning against the Rockies (pictured above). In the bottom of the third, the Cards were leading 5-1 when the game came to a close. Pujols' home run and the Cards' five runs never existed because it was rained out. The game will have to be completely replayed.

How disingenuous is it to sell tickets to a game that people show up for that winds up never even existing. What about the players? What if at the end of the year, Pujols comes within one RBI of leading the National League. It's not his fault that the rain occurred. Why do his stats, the ones that happened when the game wasn't raining, have to be washed away?

This isn't college football. When I see a home run, I expect it to be in the box score the next day.