Major League Baseball is again using the runner-at-second rule to start extra innings. Several other ideas have been considered.
Starting pitcher Dustin May left in the second inning with an arm injury, and the Dodgers lost 6-5 to the host Milwaukee Brewers in 11 innings Saturday.
“The current regular season extra innings rule has been enormously popular with our fans and with our Clubs, and has significantly reduced the length of extra-inning games,“ Morgan Sword, MLB‘s executive vice president of baseball operations, said in a statement. The league considered several ideas before choosing “the minor league rule,” including ending games in a push to make the next day’s game worth two wins, having a statistic serve as the tiebreaker after the ninth inning , taking one fielder off the field each inning, a home run derby, and sudden death to end the game after an extra half inning.
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