Phil Rosenthal: Critics want baseball's extra innings rule to change. But marathon games should be savored
by Phil Rosenthal, Chicago Tribune
Apr 29, 2019
3 minutes
It took 15 innings over five hours, 36 minutes for the Cubs to get past the Diamondbacks for a 6-5 victory on Sunday.
That gave baseball fans plenty of time to contemplate how the sport resolves its tie games.
Not everyone, it seems, enjoys the drama of extra innings - and there was plenty Sunday, with scoring opportunity after opportunity shot down or shut down.
Proposals to remedy what really shouldn't be
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