Last Sunday, the Cubs played an extra-inning game for the first time under the “placed runner” rule, where a “ghost runner” begins each extra inning at second base.
There had been warnings that this would create the same thing in every extra inning: the runner sacrificed to third base, then (perhaps) score on a sacrifice fly. That hasn’t happened; in the Cubs/Pirates game last week there were walks, a stolen base, a play at the plate and the winning run scoring on a base hit. In other extra-inning games this year there have been all sorts of plays, including a walkoff grand slam.