Remember that beer league softball game you played in last summer that was tied 17-17 after seven innings, and your team led off the top of the eighth with your drunk friend standing on second base?
That’s now minor league baseball.
Seriously. MiLB announced a bevy of rule changes Wednesday intended to speed up the pace of play, and among them is an age-old recreational softball rule. If a game is tied after nine innings, the 10th inning will begin with the last batter from the previous frame who failed to reach base safely standing on second base.