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Dodgers' Justin Turner Suggests MLB Use Home Run Derby Instead of Extra Innings

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Justin Turner has an idea on how to rid baseball of endless extra-inning games.

If you're a baseball traditionalist, get ready to grit your teeth.

The Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman said he wants to push MLB to decide extra-inning games via home run derby.

"This is my opportunity to push for a home run derby in extra innings," Turner told Access Sportsnet Dodgers. "Instead of playing 17 innings, you get one extra inning, you play the 10th inning, and [if] no one scores, then you go to a home run derby.