For the second time this postseason, baseball fans – and more casual postseason observers who do not obsess over the game from the moment the gates of spring training camps are unlocked in mid-February – have been treated to an extraordinary, unforgettable game that simply would not have occurred if the most radical of the rule changes imposed on the game by Commissioner Rob Manfred's tenure had been used, as it is during the regular season.
The extra-inning runner that is used during the regular season is not used during the postseason. It would appear that even Manfred understands, on some level, that he shouldn't shit on the most important games of the season by insisting upon his most infamous gimmick of a rule change.