-MY> I'm not sure why the *'d lines don't add up, and I can't
-MY> find anything on why there are two teams with 163 and one
-MY> with 164 games played that year.  But, in answer to your
-MY> question, there doesn't seem to be anything "odd" as far as
-MY> Tovar playing 164 games, when it is recorded that his team
-MY> played 164 games, other than that he was very durable that
-MY> year.  8-)
OK here's the answer.
 
Games that end up as official games - that go five innings -- and 
are ties -- and not resumed but thrown out and replayed -- do not
count in the standings.  However, any stats from the game count.
E.G. - the other night - the Red Sox played the Angels and were
rained out after 4 1/2 innings.  Because the Angels were ahead and
the Sox hadn't had their "ups" in the fifth, the game was thrown
out.  However if it had gone five and the score was tied, and the
teams decided to play it over from scratch, the stats in the game
would count.
 
The Twins had two tied games in the 1967 season which were official
but were thrown out and replayed.  Thus 164 games - but they only
had the regular 162 in the standings.
 
Tiebreaker games (such as the 1978 Red Sox-Yankees one game playoff, and the 
1948 one game playoff between Cleveland and Boston) were 
counted in the standings as "regular season games" - so they did
play 163 games in 1978.
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