 The game is also considered official if the home team scores to take the lead in the bottom of the fifth inning, since the game would end immediately if the same thing happened in the ninth.Games that are stopped due to power outages are treated as suspended and cannot be declared official.In the Major League Baseball postseason and all tiebreaker games that are added to the end of the regular season, this rule does not apply; all games stopped at any time for weather or power outages are considered suspended and continued from the point of stoppage when play resumes, no matter if the game has reached the end of the fifth inning.