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The league's Joint Competition Committee unanimously voted to make its extra-inning rule permanent for all regular season games in 2023 and beyond, ESPN's Jesse Rogers reported on Monday. In 2020, MLB changed its rules so that each extra inning would begin with a runner on second base.

MLB first used the extra-innings tiebreaker rule during the 60-game pandemic season in 2020 as a way to shorten games and reduce injury risk after the unusual spring training shutdown and midsummer build-up period for pitchers. The rule remained on a temporary basis in 2021 and 2022, and now it has been made permanent.

Each half-inning ends when three outs are recorded by the fielding team. If the score remains tied at the end of the ninth inning, additional innings known as “extra innings” take place.

2020 MLB first used the extra-innings tiebreaker rule during the 60-game pandemic season in 2020 as a way to shorten games and reduce injury risk after the unusual spring training shutdown and midsummer build-up period for pitchers. The rule remained on a temporary basis in 2021 and 2022, and now it has been made permanent.

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If the home team would have to come up to bat and try to score and they fail, then the game can go into what's called “Extra Innings” and starts at the top of the 10th, in which case the game can go on as long as it takes until a team wins the game. Historically, 10 percent of regular season games go to extra innings.

Seven-inning doubleheaders Under some rulesets, games played as part of a doubleheader last seven innings each instead of the usual nine.

Thankfully, no, MLB does not have the same doubleheader rule in 2023. That rule was altered in 2022, and despite some consideration from the league itself, was not renewed prior to this year either.

Sensing that an official ruling was necessary as more and more baseball teams were formed, the Knickerbockers decided to form a committee in 1856 to tackle the issue. The desire for more competitive defense won out, and nine innings -- and nine men -- became the standard for good.