White Sox test drive MLB's new extra-inning rule, and it doesn't look great

What Lucas Giolito thinks of the extra inning rule"The runner on second,” White Sox reliever Aaron Bummer said last week, “I'm not a fan of at all.”

It’s not difficult to see why.

The White Sox took Major League Baseball’s new extra-inning rule for a test drive during Monday’s intrasquad game at Guaranteed Rate Field, and it’s not great.

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I’m no old-school baseball purist. Games are too long, and the league isn’t wrong to try to figure out a way to speed them up. In this case, it’s an attempt to get the game to finish up rather than speed up. And innovation, especially in this most unusual of seasons, should not be…