Major League Baseball officially calls the player who begins the inning during regular season extra inning games the “automatic runner” in the rules. That is an objectively boring name. Baseball fans have dubbed this player the “ghost runner,” which is far more interesting, even if it’s not technically accurate; they’re just as real as any other player.

A lot of baseball fans despise the ghost runner rule, which is in its sixth full season. This is weird to me, a noted ghost runner fan, because players like it, coaches like it, the media likes it, and it does its job in limiting the amount of ridiculously long games–and no one likes ridiculously long games.

Speaking of ridiculously long games, the Toronto Blue Jays and the Los Angeles Dodgers just played one of those really long games in

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