Extra innings is the procedure by which a tie is broken in the
sport of baseball. To tie or draw is to finish a Competition
with identical or inconclusive results Baseball is a Bat-and-
ball Sport played between two teams of nine players each
Ordinarily, a baseball game consists of nine innings, each of
which is divided into halves: the visiting team bats first,
after which the home team takes its turn at bat. An inning, or
innings, is a fixed-length segment of a game in any of a variety
of Sports &ndash most notably Cricket and Baseball during
However, if the score remains tied at the end of nine complete
innings, the rules provide that "play shall continue until (1)
the visiting team has scored more total runs than the home team
at the end of a completed inning; or (2) the home team scores
the winning run in an uncompleted inning. " Because they bat in
the second (or "bottom") half of an inning, a home team which
scores to take a lead either in the ninth inning or at any point
in extra innings immediately en