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Originally Posted by pilight
"Often"? There are three scheduled doubleheaders this year.
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True, not many games are scheduled as double-headers on the Official Schedule in place currently. However, there will be a significant number played as such during the course of the season. I meant "scheduled" as in "the teams arrive at the ballpark knowing they'll be playing two games that day".
In absolutely none of those cases do I recall hearing that it was unfair to the fans that 18 innings were planned to be played later that day. Nor do I recall any managers urging a rules change that would have the result of the second game determined by Rock-Paper-Scissors because they'd already played 9 innings, and it's too hard to do that again.
If asking teams to play 18 innings in a day because of scheduling (either pre-planned or compensatory) is okay, I don't see how asking teams to endure the extremely-rare (as you yourself pointed out) advent of a 16-inning contest is somehow unbearable and requires IMO ridiculous "remedies". Tempest, meet teapot, I'd say.