Major League Baseball games can take a long time to finish. Is it possible for teams to run out of pitchers during a single game?

Major League Baseball's postseason will get underway on Tuesday with Game 1 of all four Wild Card Series. This, then, is the opportune time to offer a refresher on baseball's (still) relatively new playoff format. "Relatively" is a load-bearing phrase in that sentence given that this October will be the fourth under the current 12-team structure.

MLB's extra innings format is different in the playoffs from the regular season. Here's how bonus baseball works in the postseason.

MLB rules carved out an exception for players to have more time between innings long before Shohei Ohtani took the mound Saturday.

Lost in the craziness: The Dodgers hit Priester well that inning. Hernández walked, Freddie Freeman hit a rocket to left field that Isaac Collins had to jump to catch, Smith and Tommy Edman singled, then Muncy hit a ball to the top of the wall in center. Priester and the Brewers are fortunate to escape that inning without a run scoring.

Little League World Series games are typically six innings long, but can be shortened by the "run rule" if a team is ahead by 15 runs after three innings or 10 runs after four innings. Games can go into extra innings, with a runner placed on second base ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Baseball’s unwritten rules and equipment controversies are providing as much drama as the playoff races themselves. In Houston, the Astros are no strangers to controversy and find themselves at the center of two bizarre incidents that ...

Velocity rules in October. There have been a record 255 pitches of 100 mph or faster this postseason, up from 105 last year and the previous high of 169 in 2022.

The four pitchers who will decide this Fall Classic experienced Game 6 between the Dodgers and Blue Jays in very different ways.