Why does baseball have day games?

From a fan's perspective, a day game is much cooler. You know, sun, grass, natural light. Plus, the base revenue for an MLB team is season tickets and luxury boxes. read more

Baseball has day games for two primary reasons: 1). It is the weekend. Most people do not work on Saturday and Sunday, so games on these days generally start between 1 PM and 4 PM. 2). It is Monday or Thursday. Most series end on Sunday, Monday, or Thursday. The reason there are day games on these days is due to travel. read more

Ugh, reminds me of how Girardi (rightly) suggested teams playing Sunday Night Baseball should usually have a day off the next day. Also, back to speaking of teams from New York being shitty, I also remember when Girardi got all pissy about makeup dates for the game we postponed after Mike Flanagan died. read more

A doubleheader (in the classic sense) is a set of two baseball games played between the same two teams on the same day in front of the same crowd. In addition, the term is often used unofficially to refer to a pair of games played by a team in a single day, but in front of different crowds and not in immediate succession. read more