There's no extra benefit, nothing at all extraordinary to winning in extra innings.
This isn't the NFL, where the rules are modified for overtime, or the NHL, where they're now going to three-on-three and give out freebie points. In Major League Baseball, you play until there's a winner, same regulations, same reward.
So why do those extra-inning losses always feel so much lousier?
And do they have the corresponding effect in reverse?
The answers to both those questions, according to Josh Harrison in the aftermath of the Pirates besting the Braves, 3-2, on Jordy Mercer's 10th-inning RBI double Friday night at PNC Park, come across like a resounding yes:
