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1990 MLB Original Schedules
26 teams, 14 teams in the first league and 12 in the second league;
2 divisions of 7 teams in the first league and 2 divisions of 6 teams in the second league
Games: 162
Length: 182 days
Interleague: No
Format: Balanced (AL); Divisional (NL)
AL: A team plays 13 games against each of its 6 divisional opponents (13 x 6 = 78 games)
AL: A team plays 12 games against each of the 7 clubs in the other division (12 x 7 = 84 games)
NL: A team plays 18 games against each of its 5 divisional opponents (18 x 5 = 90 games)
NL: A team plays 12 games against each of the 6 clubs in the other division (12 x 6 = 72 games)
Year starts on: Monday
Season opens: Mon. Apr. 2
Season closes: Sun. Sept. 30
All-Star Game: Tue. July 10
Total scheduled doubleheaders: 4
Average home stand length: 6.9 games
Average of longest home stands: 11.7 games
Longest home stand: 14 games (MIN, OAK, SLN)
Average road trip length: 6.9 games
Average of longest road trips: 11.6 games
Longest road trip: 14 games (DET, LAN)
Average stretch of consecutive play: 8.6 days
Average of longest stretches of consecutive play: 19.3 days
Longest stretch of consecutive play: 20 days (twenty clubs)
Series scheduled
2-game: 092
3-game: 462
4-game: 134
TOTAL:w688
Also included for this year is a lockout-altered version of the schedules. A lockout of the players which occurred during spring training caused a delay in the start of the season. In order to give sufficient time for spring training, the schedule was officially revised by MLB. The start of the season was pushed back one week while the end of the season was pushed back three days. The season now began on Mon. Apr. 9th and closed on Wed. Oct. 3rd.
A total of 78 games were affected by the lockout and all of them were rescheduled for play before the end of the season, either played as parts of doubleheaders, on common off days as one game series, or as one series on the last three extra days of the season. As a result all clubs played a full 162 game schedule.
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