Saturday was a good day to be a Milwaukee Brewer. First, the Brewers learned that they'd clinched the first berth of the MLB postseason when the New York Mets lost, 3-2 to the Texas Rangers Saturday ...

Major League Baseball's extra innings format is different in the playoffs from the regular season, getting rid of the "ghost runner" starting on second base once a game goes beyond nine innings.

This Twins season has faded completely into irrelevance and fan apathy, but they're still playing nine innings of baseball nearly every day and will continue to do so for the rest of this month. And ...

The MLB Playoffs are here, which means there's plenty of baseball to watch and teams to root for. Inevitably (whether you hate it or love it), there might be a time when a game heads to extra innings.

"It's the mathematical potential for a single game to last forever, in a suspended world where no clock rules the day, that aligns baseball as much with the dead as the living." Bill Vaughn is right.