The Guardians had several chances to win this game but couldn’t close it out in a four-hour marathon of a baseball game. They ultimately fell to the twins, 8-7, in 11 innings.
For all of its faults, the Manfred Runner rule has done a good job at stopping games from going past the 10th inning. If that was its only goal, then fine, it works. One team or the other can typically manage to get a runner from the second to home, and that’s that.
But not these teams. They decided to turn it up to 11 with some shoddy defense and inept hitting in the 10th.