Editing Extra innings (section)

===International play===

====Baseball====
In the 11th inning, the manager selects anywhere in the batting order to start the inning, regardless of the last player put out. The batter immediately preceding this newly designated leadoff man becomes a runner on first base, and the next preceding batter is placed on second base. In subsequent innings, the batting order continues as normal, but the two players preceding the player scheduled to lead off (or substitutes for those players) the inning start on second and first.

This has also been adopted by European leagues [[División de Honor de Béisbol|Division de Honor]] (Spain), [[Italian Baseball League]], and [[Honkbal Hoofdklasse]] (Netherlands).

Since the [[2009 World Baseball Classic|2009]] edition, a modified form of the rule has been used for the [[World Baseball Classic]]. Unlike the standard rule, the batting order may not start from a different place. Through the 2013 edition, the first inning in which teams started with runners on first and second was the 13th. The rule was not used in either the 2009 or [[2013 World Baseball Classic|2013]] editions because no game lasted more than 11 innings. For the [[2017 World Baseball Classic]], the rule was modified to use extra runners for the first time in the 11th inning, and it would see its first use in a second-round game between [[Japan national baseball team|Japan]] and the [[Netherlands national baseball team|Netherlands]] at the [[Tokyo Dome]]. Japan won that game thanks to a sacrifice bunt and a 2-run hit.

Other methods include the following:{{Citation needed|date=February 2014}}
*Putting runners on second and third (those who made the last two outs of the past inning) and an 0-2 count on the batter with no outs.
*Having bases loaded (runners being the last three outs of the past inning), with a 1-1 count on the batter and no outs.
*Sudden-death extra innings (the next team to score wins the game; this can result in a walk-off home run for the visiting team).

====Softball====
In international softball, a special extra innings rule starts immediately after regulation. Each team begins their half of the inning with a runner on second base (the last player to be put out). This increases the odds that teams will score and ensures a faster resolution. There is a drawback, though, in that the home team has a major advantage in batting second. Should the visiting team fail to score, all the home team must do to win is, for example, get a successful bunt and sacrifice fly to score the winning run, though a similar advantage exists in all extra-inning contests just not to that extent. This rule is also used in certain [[NCAA]] college conferences, usually applied after one or two extra innings where the "international tiebreaker" is not used.