I don't care how many times the Yankees win games thanks to the 10th inning runner rule. It isn't baseball. The Yankees lost 6-5 tonight...
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I am a Baseball Purist -- I wish the dh had never been invented. But I've come to appreciate the ghost runner for exactly the reason I hate the dh: It increases strategy and puts a premium on fundamental baseball. In a time of the hegemony of Three True Outcomes, extra innings now focuses on moving the runner by scoring on a base hit, a sacrifice bunt, a stolen base, or artful hitting to right side of the infield (or a deep fly to right to tag up on). Strikeouts are disastrous. Home runs are superfluous. Walks, as always, are walks. The ghost runner has added real excitement, and while the Purist in me is offended by it, …
Imaginary runners is one of the worst ideas baseball has come up with - ever!