With reference to the first part, it suggests the second part (if home team scores to go ahead) only counts after 5 innings, or if the home team is ahead after 4.5... the home team wasn't ahead after 4.5.
I'll defer to your experience, as I've not experienced this before, but my reading of the rules would suggest it may not be official.
They started game back up but...DougJ said:
If it were to have rained the rest of the day, the 5th inning would not have counted and therefore would not be an official game. You revert back to the last completed inning. If they would've made the third out, yanks would've won 7-3.
Another example....
Visiting team is leading 4-3 after 7 innings. Home team scores 10 in the bottom of 8th but there is only one out...starts pouring down rain, game gets called, reverts back to 7th and visiting team gets the win.
viking611 said:
Somebody's wrong ! According to this game became official when NYY took lead in B5 and before 3rd out. See paragraph #3.
http://cbs.sportsline.com/mlb/gamecenter/recap/MLB_20050814_TEX@NYY
