Baseball owners eliminate coin flips

[January 16, 2009]  PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz. (AP) -- All postseason games will be played to their conclusion under a change to the major league rules approve by baseball owners.

Owners also voted to use head-to-head records to replace coin flips when determining home-field advantage for tiebreaker games in division and wild-card races.

Games would be suspended if they are called, regardless of how many innings have been played or the score at the time. A suspended game is resumed and played to completion at the same site.

The change also applies to tiebreaker games but not to the All-Star game.

[Associated Press; By ANDREW BAGNATO]

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