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Charles Curtis

The MLB extra innings ghost runner rule is still dumb, but baseball’s future is at stake

This is the online version of our daily newsletter, The Morning Win. Subscribe to get irreverent and incisive sports stories, delivered to your mailbox every morning. Here’s Charles Curtis.

As a lifelong baseball fan, I was bummed to hear that the so-called “ghost runner” rule for extra innings — in which a runner is put on second to start innings after the ninth — would become permanent in MLB games.

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