Minimum time at a game

So do you guys feel like there is a minimum amount of time you need to be at a game for it to count as a visit. Personally, I've been a few innings late to some, left in the 7th for others. I count those, but for Cincy, I was on a work trip and couldn't get there til the middle of the 7th and had to leave after 8. I count it. I really don't want to have to make a separate trip back there, so was wondering what you guys thought.

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Permalink Reply by Josh C (30) on September 24, 2016 at 2:20pm

If you are just counting ball parks then you were there for a game and got to see the park doesn't matter how long you actually spent at the game. If you are counting games then that is up to you what counts as a game.

In the end it's all about you and what you want to count.

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Permalink Reply by michael schwartz (71) on September 25, 2016 at 7:16pm

My long time standard has been to stay at least until the game became "official" at 4.5 or 5 innings. This assumed I was there for the first pitch. My dad and I went to both Phils and Cubs games years ago where we sat for hours waiting out a rain delay, and which were both rained out without a single pitch being thrown. I didn't count either of those. Then dad and I went to a Tigers game on one of the most stifling nights I've ever experienced at a ballpark. We left after two innings, as my dad was in his eighties and might not have survived if we had hung around any longer. I counted that one. As Josh C. aptly points out, it's ultimately up to you what you want to count.

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Permalink Reply by Michael J. Torson on October 6, 2016 at 3:54pm

It's up to you. Personally, I want to say that I need to see an official game (5 innings), but I stretched that once. I only saw 4 in KC a couple of years ago before a 4 hour rain delay set in. We did not stick around as we had to drive home that night. I did count that one.

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Permalink Reply by Bob D (MLB 30/48 total 442) on October 27, 2016 at 6:46pm

For me I count the park after I see a game from beginning to end. Saw 101 baseball games this,year. Maybe was layer once and not to a first visit to a patks did not leave any early

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Permalink Reply by Bard Lessem26 on November 14, 2016 at 12:30pm

I count it if I've seen a game OR toured the ballpark. There have been some I've hit in the off season and I think doing a complete tour is seeing more of the park than if I'm just sitting in the stands. I've seen thousands of games, but not the intricacies of all the ballparks.