Rubber Match Baseball Origin

In a three game series tied at one game a piece the third match is the rubber match.

Rubber match baseball origin.

In sports where 2 wins out of 3 games wins the match and after 2 games where each team has won one match the third and decisive game is referred to as the rubber match. A rubber match or rubber game is a match where the winner of that match wins the series. Rubber match posted by bruce kahl on september 11 2003. The sporting term rubber match refers to the final and deciding game in any series and traces its origins back to the 16th century english game of lawn bowling.

A standard baseball game lasts nine innings although some leagues such as high school baseball use seven inning games. Posted by henry on september 11 2003. Term used for the third game of 3 game series when the two teams have split the first two games. The team with the most runs at the end of the game wins.

Rubber game or rubber match. Rubber game a term used for the last game of a series or match when the two teams have evenly split the previous games. Somewhat similar to bocce ball the object of lawn bowling is to roll wooden balls across a flat field toward a smaller white ball so they stop as close as possible to the smaller.