Opening Day is just two and a half weeks away for the San Francisco Giants, and suddenly baseball’s rules are a tiny bit different than they were yesterday. On Tuesday, Joel Sherman of the NY Post reported three rule changes for the 2022 season — one of them is awful, one of them doesn’t impact the Giants, and one of them certainly does.
Let’s break them down one-by-one, in that order.
The awful rule
Congratulations, trusty baseball fan, you’ve been played. You finally thought that the ghost runner — the free runner placed on second base in every extra inning — was gone.