I’ve always been very much against the idea of tie games in baseball.
Yes, it’s true that Japan’s major league, Nippon Pro Baseball, declares games ties after 12 innings.
But in the major leagues, extra-inning games have often provided some of the most compelling and interesting baseball, especially if they go 16, 17, 18 or more innings. Games that go past 12 innings in MLB amount to about 1.5 percent of all games, so “fixing” this would appear to me to be a solution in search of a problem.
Then I read this article by Brittany Ghiroli, who covers the Nationals for The Athletic.