narrated by Keith David. The Inning was broken into two halves airing on September 28 and 29, 2010. The documentary discussed the major stories of the last fifteen years in baseball. It focuses heavily on examining the Steroid era and the many players who got caught up in it, but also discusses other major issues in baseball, such as how baseball rebounded from the 1994 strike largely thanks to the selflessness of Cal Ripken Jr. and other players, the return to prominence of the Yankees, the influence of international players (specifically Dominican and Japanese players) on the game, and the drama of the 2003 and 2004 American League Championship Series, which helped baseball, even in the midst of America's greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression, become as popular as it has ever been. As a postscript, Marcos Breton, the Sacramento Bee writer who was interviewed extensively during the film, finally realized his boyhood dream of watching the Giants win their first World Championship in San Francisco shortly after the film premiered on PBS. Ken Burns has talked in interviews about the possibility of making an 11th inning. Critical reception David Hinckley of New York Daily News wrote, "Ken Burns hits another one out of the park." References External links PBS page on Baseball Streaming from PBS The Tenth Inning website 1990s American television miniseries 1994 American television series debuts 1990s American documentary television series 1994 American television series endings History of baseball in the United States