It took 15 innings over five hours, 36 minutes for the Cubs to get past the Diamondbacks for a 6-5 victory on Sunday.
That gave baseball fans plenty of time to contemplate how the sport resolves its tie games.
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Not everyone, it seems, enjoys the drama of extra innings — and there was plenty Sunday, with scoring opportunity after opportunity shot down or shut down.
Proposals to remedy what really shouldn’t be considered a problem have included starting extra innings with a runner on second to jump-start offenses or declaring a tie and walking away from any game still deadlocked after 12 innings.