Alex Cora wants MLB to extend extra inning rules to extreme measures

Boston Red Sox skipper Alex Cora has ideas on how to “improve” the MLB’s extra innings rules.

Leave it up to Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora on how to make baseball’s extra innings rules better, worse or downright terrible.

For the second year in a row, once a game goes into extra innings, a runner will be placed on second base before the frame even begins. It is done to hopefully end a game sooner to save the bullpen from being completely taxed. It is an incredibly controversial rule, and one many baseball fans are still not used to. If having one runner on second base was enough, Cora has other ideas.

Get a load of what Cora would do if he was in charge of the MLB‘s extra innings rules.

Boston Red Sox: Alex Cora wants all the baserunners in extra innings games

Adding an additional baserunner to each subsequent inning is crazy and outlandish, but a thought process any relief pitcher can totally respect. Nobody wants to play a five or six-hour baseball game, especially when it is cold outside or it is super late into the night. By adding as many baserunners as possible, the game will end as quickly as Cora wants it to. He has things to do.

So if an extra innings game were to go into the 13th frame, you better believe Cora would be all about having a fourth runner on base. It might be really confusing and unfair for the defense, but you can never put a price on saving a relief pitcher’s arm. They may not like what happens to their stat lines, but they will thank smart men like Cora later for coming up with such a terrific idea.

Nobody wants to get done with a baseball game more than Cora because he has stuff to do.