![]() And when guys have to be down 15 days and you just sent down three or four of your pitchers, you can’t bring ’em back, then guys are coming off the roster to fill in, and you don’t want that.” "So when you get into one of those 17-, 18-inning games, you’re going through pretty much everybody out of your bullpen, and then you've got to start making player moves. ![]() “You’re really stringent on pitch counts for your starters and typically they’re lower now than they were even 10 years ago. ![]() So that helps you with roster juggling and things like that," he said. “You’re not going to get in a 17-, 18-inning game. Philadelphia manager Rob Thomson said modern bullpen use caused him to favor the rule. Cleveland beat Tampa Bay 1-0 in 15 innings in the clinching Game 2 of their best-of-three American League wild-card series this year, and Houston defeated Seattle 1-0 in 18 innings to sweep their best-of-five AL Division Series. So you probably play for not the big inning but probably a crooked number on the road, where at home you get the last at-bat and that could be the game.”īaseball has not used the rule during the postseason. It can mean something, but basically they have an opportunity to tie it up, so you can go back and forth, back and forth. On the road, one run doesn’t mean that much. “At home you can bunt, you can play for that one run. “It makes you play a different game at home than you do on the road,” Houston Astros manager Dusty Baker said.
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