But didn’t have a spot for it in the division standings.

specifically the “glub-glub-glub” one

it might be time for a second bloginental blogress

They don’t count in the standings though.

If you look at the recordbooks, there are about 30 guys that have played over 162 games in a season — there are three primary reasons for this….

1.) End of the season tie-breaker games.

2.) Guys getting traded to a team that had played less games than the team that traded them at the point of the trade.

3.) Guys who played in tie-games.

Tie games occur when two teams are tied after the fifth inning, and the game is rained out. These are rare, but I would say happen maybe once a season or so.

The stats count in tie-games, but they are not notated in the standings. Up until a couple of years ago, a tie game would be replayed from the beginning rather than resumed — my guess why they just restarted the games, is that given baseball’s substitution rules, you would have to have identical rosters, and in a similar pitching situation that you were in at the time of the original game.