Sentence examples for a mercy rule from inspiring English sources
We have a mercy rule in six-man football.
If professional tennis had a mercy rule, it would have been invoked.
Some columnists have been arguing that hockey ought to institute a mercy rule.
There is a mercy rule: any team up by 10 or more runs after seven innings is declared the winner.
Asked afterward if women's Olympic hockey should institute a mercy rule, the American coach, Mark Johnson, paused a moment and then said, "No".
The Italians have been the surprise team in this tournament bracket, beating Mexico on Thursday with a ninth-inning rally off Sergio Romo and punishing Canada, 14-4, in a mercy-rule victory on Friday afternoon.
"They didn't have any mercy rule in those days," he said recently.
Trinity, which plays under Kentucky's more lenient — that is, less merciful — mercy rule, had done an arguably better job of running up the score against mediocre opponents (72 0, in the first round of the state playoffs, for instance), and had acquired its share of non-local scalps as well, with victories over teams from neighboring Ohio, Indiana, and Tennessee.
They battered Buffalo from the opening kickoff, dominating in terms of passing, rushing and total yardage, time of possession, turnovers, even fantasy football points accrued, culminating in a 38-14 thatmph that begged for a new mercy rule.
A 7-foot birdie on the 10th hole pushed the lead to nine and left spectators joking about a 10-stroke mercy rule.
