Do they call baseball games in the 7th inning because one team is ahead?

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25. Just because it's a longshot doen't mean one team should be expected to walk away before over

yes Clinton is the likely winner....But stranger things have happened.


http://www.hardballtimes.com/tht-live/10-year-anniversary-of-baseballs-greatest-comeback/
10-year anniversary of baseball’s greatest comeback
AUGUST 5, 2011 BY CHRIS JAFFE 7

Ten years ago today, major league baseball witnessed its greatest comeback in history as the Cleveland Indians rallied from a 12-run deficit to defeat the Seattle Mariners 15-14 in 11 innings.

On that day, the Mariners scored four in the top of the second, and piled on eight more runs next inning. After the Indians plated two in a minor rally, the Mariners scored another pair of their own in the top of the fifth. With the game halfway to completion, the Indians stood a woeful 12 runs back, 14-2.

Around this point, the Indians began yanking their starters. First to go was Ellis Burks, shortly followed by Roberto Alomar and Travis Fryman. Why bother risking injury to some of their stars? The game was over, right? Apparently Seattle felt the same way and benched Ichiro Suzuki, Edgar Martinez and John Olerud. At the seventh-inning stretch, the score was still 14-2 with the scrubs playing garbage time.

A little later Then one of those scrubs, Russell Branyan, led off the bottom of the seventh with a solo shot. 14-3....


.....The impossible had happened. The all-world team with the superlative bullpen had just blown the staggering lead. It was all knotted up, 14-14.

But the game wasn’t over. Though Vizquel tripled, the Indians couldn’t bring him home, and the game went into extra innings. In the 10th inning, both sides staged a mini-rally with two outs, but both fell short.

In the 11th, the Indians went to work again. With one out, Lofton singled to center. Vizquel followed with his fourth hit of the game, another single that put Lofton on third. Now Cabrera came to the plate, and blasted a first-pitch single that scored Lofton. Now it was over, and the Indians had won, 15-14—exactly 10 years ago today.