Why does the MLB play 162 games?

Hey all – Adam here!

As a life-long baseball fan and also a life-long “numbers” guy, my passions often fed off each other with fanatical career stat obsessions, memorization of standings, and the occasional “what are the odds of that!” stat occurrence. I absolutely love when my passions coalesce, as evidenced by this previous Juan Soto post and his love for #22.

In one case, though, one question that I would ask many baseball lovers is:

“Why does the MLB play 162 games in a season?”

The internet wasn’t nearly what it is today when I was growing up, so answers to questions like that were scarce. In the physical realm, every person I asked simply had no legitimate answer. In fact, it seemed as if I was the only one that cared enough to ask that question, let alone find the answer, oddly enough.

Well, I never did find that answer. That is… until I came into contact with gematria on this very website that I am now a part of.

 

Why Major League Baseball teams play 162 games in a season? Numerology to the rescue!

For me, out of alllll the possible numbers that baseball could have equaled, of course it just HAD to equal 162. In fact, baseball was one of the first words I ran in this calculator, as if my subconscious mind was screaming out to show me an answer to a life-long question merged with passion:

Furthermore, Major League Baseball gives us an ordinal value of 162 as well. Come on… even MLB produces the gematria of 162.

Let’s get a little crazy now. Take a look at the gematria of baseball in the primes cipher, a cipher that frequently yields some pretty large numbers. In this case, it yields another 162 with all different alphanumeric values.

This was the first time in my life that I was presented with an answer to the question “Why does the MLB play 162 games in a season?“, period. This answer was, well… interesting. It made so much sense to me, but at the same time drew so many more questions about life!

 

Numerology, Rules of Baseball Synced

Let’s examine the gematria of the four base ciphers of baseball:

Not only was I blown away with the elusive 162, but the other numbers made complete sense for the game of baseball as well.

Double 54 gematria? Any time I encounter duplicate gematria in the same word within the four base ciphers I tend to key in on that number, or vibration. So does this 54 make sense for the game of baseball? Anything with 54 in the rules?

• 54 outs – 9 innings, 3 outs per inning. 9 X 3 = 27. There are 2 teams involved in a game, so 27 outs X 2 teams gives us 54 outs in a full game of baseball!
• 18 players – 9 players per team. 2 teams. 18 players.
• Look at the the gematria of just Major League:

• And you’re telling me that there are exactly 108 double stitches in a Major League baseball 🤣:

• 216 individual stitches in a baseball – same digits as 162?

When did the MLB change baseball’s rules change to have 162 game in a season for both the American and National Leagues? Of course, 1962. Derek gave me this gem:

Considering that all of these numbers reduce to 9, the root number of baseball is quite clearly 9. Let’s examine the rules again:

• 90º angles at the bases
• Bases are also 90 feet apart
• Just look at the gematria of base and ball:

• Pitcher’s mound dirt diameter is 18 feet
• Pitcher’s mound is 60 feet 6 inches (upside down 99?) from home plate
• Why even call it a plate? Oh yeah, same numbers…

• Pitcher’s mound is 6 inches deep (upside down 9?)
• How about the gematria of pitcher’s mound, pitcher, and even batter?

 

• Pitcher’s mound surface area is 144 square inches (1+4+4 = 9)
• Home plate surface area is even 216 square inches!!! (9!) COME ON! This is getting laughable, isn’t it?

Of course, 216 means quite more to many die-hard baseball fans, as the 2016 World Series was arguably one of the most hyped up sporting events of our time, with the Chicago Cubs ending a 108 year drought. 🤔

That will be another post at another time.

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