Editing Extra innings (section)

==Home-field advantage==
In [[Major League Baseball]], home teams won about 52% of extra-inning games from 1957 to 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/155.html|title=Home team record in extra innings|work=[[Baseball-Reference.com]] Blog Archive|access-date=August 27, 2020|archive-date=November 11, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111230848/https://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/155.html|url-status=live}}</ref> During this same time period, home teams have won about 54% of all baseball games.<ref name="Prospectus">{{cite web|url=http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=9372|title=Baseball Prospectus – Ahead in the Count: Home-Field Advantages, Part One|work=Baseball Prospectus|date=11 August 2009|access-date=5 October 2014|archive-date=6 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006175752/http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=9372|url-status=live}}</ref> So while the home team has some advantage in extra-inning games, this advantage is less noticeable than the initial home-field advantage. Home teams tend to have the greatest advantage in run-scoring during the first 3 innings.<ref name ="Prospectus" />

For the visiting team to win, it must score as many runs as possible in the first (or "top") half of the inning and then prevent the home team from tying or taking the lead in the second (or "bottom") half. Because it bats in the bottom half of an inning, a home team wins the game by taking the lead at any point in the final inning. Normally in such a situation, the moment the winning run scores for whatever reason (base hit, sacrifice, wild pitch), the game immediately ends and no other runs are allowed. The term for winning in this scenario is a "walk-off" win (as everyone can walk off the field as soon as the winning run is scored). The exception is if the winning hit is a [[walk-off home run]]; all runners on base and the batter must circle the bases on a home run, provided that they round them all correctly, so all their runs count for the final score.<ref>Baseball Explained by Phillip Mahony, McFarland Books, 2014. See [http://www.baseballexplained.com www.baseballexplained.com]  {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140813034018/http://www.baseballexplained.com/ |date=August 13, 2014 }}</ref> Each extra inning simply repeats this scenario. This is in contrast to the analogous [[penalty shootout]] used in [[ice hockey]] or [[association football]], where shootout goals are counted separately and only one goal is awarded to the winner (hockey), or the game is recorded as a draw and the team winning the shootout is noted separately (association football); however, the same procedure of counting runs as if they were scored in regulation is like the overtime procedures in [[American football]], [[Canadian football]] and [[basketball]].