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How should the Atlanta Braves handle extra innings?

Bunt or swing away? Use speed or rely on hitting skills? It feels like the Atlanta Braves haven't been that good at driving home a runner after a lead-off double, but it's difficult to fact-check that kind of game scenario.

Even if you could, it also might not be directly applicable to the situation that teams will face in extra-inning games this Summer:

Every game going beyond nine innings will begin with the placement of a runner on second base: the hitter making the last out in the prior inning.

It's a move intended to preserve pitcher arms and protect against games going deep into the night when teams have limits of days off and -- especially early on -- pitchers with pitch-count limits.