Okay, so I’ve been digging into the NCAA baseball extra innings rules, and let me tell you, it’s been a bit of a wild ride. I really wanted to see what the changes for 2023 were all about.
First off, I started looking around online to find what the deal is with these extra innings. It seems like they introduced some new stuff recently. Apparently, if a game is tied after the usual nine innings, things get interesting from the 10th inning onwards.
I spent a good chunk of time reading through some official-looking documents, like the NCAA Baseball Playing Rules Interpretations and Clarifications for 2022-2023. It had a publication date of March 6th, so it was pretty up-to-date, which is great.
Then I went on to try to figure out this whole “ghost runner” thing. I saw that Major League Baseball started using it in 2020, and it looks like college baseball has picked it up too. The idea is to put a runner on second base at the start of each half-inning in extras, which I guess is supposed to speed things up and make it more exciting.
Honestly, it took a while to wrap my head around all of this. I had to go through several different sources, and even then, it wasn’t always super clear. I watched some videos too, hoping to see the rules in action, but most of them were just highlights without much explanation.
After a few days of on-and-off research, I finally feel like I have a decent handle on the rules. I even tried to put together a little summary for myself, just to make sure I really got it. I had no idea the amount of effort that it would require.
In the end, I managed to find out what I needed to know. It was a bit of a hassle, but I got there. I guess it’s always like that when you’re trying to learn something new, right? It’s not always a straight path, but you figure it out eventually. And it’s always good to get a better understanding of something you’re interested in.
