Knockout Round Standings

The Pioneer Baseball League presented by TicketSmarter uses a unique “Knockout Round”, a homerun “shoot-out” to replace extra innings. Thus, no extra innings at a PBL game, but rather if a game is tied after nine innings fans will get the extra treat of watching a sudden-death homerun contest settle the score.

Here’s how it works: the visiting team designates a hitter for the first round who gets a two-minute period to see how many homers he can hit. Then the home team gets the same opportunity. If they’re still tied after the first round a second round is played with a different hitter until a winner is declared.

Each team gets to select their own batting practice pitcher to throw in the contest. In 2022, if fans get to see a “Knockout Round” they’ll be rewarded with a special collector’s item pin indicating they “scored a Knockout”.

It was recently reported that MLB is considering using a “Knockout Round” style format to decide ties in its All-Star Game. The PBL announced through social media that it fully support this proposal considering how successful and how much fun PBL fans had with it in 2021.