Major League Baseball's extra innings format is different in the playoffs from the regular season, getting rid of the "ghost runner" starting on second base once a game goes beyond nine innings.

Major League Baseball officially calls the player who begins the inning during regular season extra inning games the “automatic runner” in the rules. That is an objectively boring name. Baseball fans ...

It may be something that we never see in the major leagues, but Major League Baseball officials like it enough that they will experiment with it this year in the lower level of the minor leagues. This ...

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Dodgers limped through their dress rehearsal during the season, looking at times like they were just a pedestrian team and might even be vulnerable in the postseason.

Philadelphia came to Los Angeles having already clinched a playoff berth. With Monday’s 6-5 extra-inning win over the Dodgers, the Phillies added a division title to that collection, one they ...

The Detroit Tigers outlasted the Seattle Mariners in 11 innings to take Game 1 of the best-of-five American League Division Series. Zach McKinstry’s RBI single against Carlos Vargas in the top of the ...

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - The Extra Innings Baseball League is helping inner-city kids and families gain access to and opportunities to play baseball in the summer. “We just want to eliminate barriers to ...

GLEN ALLEN — Ocean Lakes baseball coach Pete Zell joked that his team doesn’t do anything easy. And he’s right. In Friday’s Class 5 state semifinals, the Dolphins nearly blew a nine-run lead and ...