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MLB likely to drop seven-inning doubleheaders, extra-inning runner rule in 2022, commissioner Rob Manfred says

DENVER -- Banning the shift, eliminating seven-inning doubleheaders and playing extra innings without a runner starting on second base are all on the table as Major League Baseball continues its post-COVID return to normalcy, while also negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement with the players' association.

"When we adopted seven-inning doubleheaders for this year, we didn't know the country was going to look like it does now," commissioner Rob Manfred said in a state-of-the sport address at the All-Star Game on Tuesday. "We were scared it was going to look very, very different.

"It was a COVID-related change.