When a game goes 12 innings, it’s pretty hard to write about everything that happened. On Tuesday night, the Royals and Rays combined to score 13 runs on 24 hits, there were 88 at-bats, 13 walks and one manager was ejected.
To accurately describe everything that happened, I’d have to write “War and Peace,” but since you probably don’t have time to read that and I definitely don’t have to write that, let’s look at one pitch instead.
Why you don’t pitch inside in extra innings
One of the pitching rules of thumb is you don’t pitch inside in extra innings and the reasoning is pretty simple.