Dodgers manager Dave Roberts is against using the automatic runner rule for extra innings in the World Series. Blue Jays ...

Most of MLB's new rules are actually pretty easy to get behind. Defensive shifts were very effective, but the optics of actually watching them in games was pretty bad and the game isn't "lesser" for ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Visiting teams had a 109-107 edge in extra-inning games this year in the second season starting extra innings with a runner on second base has been a permanent rule. Visitors have a ...

Max Fried wasn’t his sharpest in Tuesday’s 11-inning, 2-1 loss to the Mariners, but it wasn’t his fault the Yankees fell in Seattle. Nor was it Tim Hill’s, even though he surrendered a walk-off single ...

Nothing in sports is as consistent and verifiable as the idea of home-field advantage. It’s a given, regardless of the sport. Academics and analysts can (and do) spend their careers trying to figure ...

ATLANTA — The sport that gave fans the ghost runner on second base to help expedite regular-season games that go to extra innings also gave everyone the first home run swing-off in history to decide ...

Houston, we have a problem. An extra-innings problem. Since MLB introduced the "ghost runner" rule in 2020, the Houston Astros have had a losing record in extra-innings games in four of five seasons.