The Cubs had won both one-run games and blowouts so far this season, but it wasn’t until Sunday that they got their first taste of trying to win a game under MLB’s new extra-innings rule. The new rule, which was part of this season’s newly implemented rules, allows a runner to start on second base to begin each half inning.
It’s not exactly what Abner Doubleday had in mind when he invented the game and it looked just as weird as you would expect. But in 2020, does the word weird even exist?
“It’s definitely different,” infielder David Bote said.