Question for our California H.S. baseball umpires.

[Dave Reed]

I think the most common tiebreaker format is the International Tiebreaker. The teams get to begin the inning at any point in the existing batting order, and place the first two batters on 1st and 2nd. The whole point of this is to quickly end the game, and it is primarily used in elimination games in travel team tournaments, because the overall schedule depends on games not greatly exceeding some time limit.

I've never seen a tie breaker used in California High School ball. Locally, high school playoffs allow 4 hours between start times.