Ahead of the 2020 season, Major League Baseball adopted a new rule that all pitchers, including relievers, would have to face a minimum of three batters. As a result of that decision, on April 13, 2025, the Baltimore Orioles lost a 7-6 game to the Toronto Blue Jays in extra innings.
OK, maybe I can’t prove that, but what I can tell you is that, prior to the three-batter minimum rule, an Orioles team holding a 6-3 lead in the eighth inning would never have allowed a disastrous Gregory Soto to keep throwing up meatballs and let this become a tie game.