For whatever reason or reasons, Major League Baseball, does not desire that any of their games in their 162-game regular season should ever end in a tie game, as if somehow, for a game to end in a tie is equated to a crime or an unacceptable result. The bottom line is that there are many a sport that permits a tie or have permitted a tie to be part and parcel of their sport, so the fact that a given game ends in a tie, shouldn’t be seen as something that is never done, or that shouldn’t be permitted. Indeed, the basic understanding of why MLB has decided that regular season games should not ever end in a tie is a mystery. That said, it is understood that approximately 9% of the games so being played end up going to extra innings, in which those games previous to the new rule change could go on for many innings, and it was thus decided by MLB to add a feature, in which, each extra inning would start with a runner on second base, to encourage scoring, which is the proximate reason why games previously went on for so many innings because each side of the MLB game wasn’t able to score a run. The thing is though, that having a ghost runner on 2nd base just seems like a really bad idea, and completely unnecessary, for there is quite obviously a more sensible solution to having too many extra innings, which can be alleviated if MLB permitted regular season games to end in a tie.
Further to the point, one of the reasons why MLB doesn’t like games that go multiple extra innings is because of travel and because of multiple pitchers having to be used, along with various other reasons, which could all be alleviated, if it was determined that extra-inning games would consist of no more than two innings, or a total of 11 innings in a game, in which, if the game was still tied, the game would be recorded as a tie. This really shouldn’t be a big deal and would keep the integrity of the game, as opposed to some runner in the extra innings, just somehow appearing on 2nd base, when he hasn’t done anything to earn being on that base to begin with.
Indeed, it is fundamentally wrong for MLB, as compared to College baseball or Minor League Baseball, to make it their point, that the only thing that they seem to care about, is seeing that a given game that goes to extra innings, is over sooner as compared to later. Well, in consideration that individual games are set for nine innings, except when the game is tied, it doesn’t seem all that difficult to mandate that extra innings, would consist of no more than two innings and thus be done with it.
After all, the purity and integrity would be better represented if MLB would simply allow games that are tied after 11 innings to end in a tie, as opposed to deliberately creating a rule that makes it easier for either team to score, as if the most important thing for the MLB in a tie game, is for that game to simply be over.