The length of the average MLB game has become a rich source of hand-wringing. Sure, NFL games on average run a few minutes longer, include a halftime and boast about 11 minutes of actual football ...

Chart: Average time of Twins and MLB games since 2000. June 9, 2013 at 1:17AM. ... Share. Listen. Longer by the year. A look at how average times for nine-inning games have progressed ...

The average length of a nine-inning MLB regular season game over the last 10 seasons is just north of three hours. The last time the average length was less than three hours was in 2015.

Check out this telling chart from Eye On Baseball and Infogr.am:. 12b1a3e6ad83. As recently as 2011, only seven MLB teams averaged more than three hours per game. Now, 29 of 30 do.

Last year in the same span, the average MLB game length was 3:09 before evening out to 3:04 for the full season. The average hasn't been this low since the 1980s, though. New MLB game length is an ...

The length of Major League Baseball games has steadily escalated over the past decade, an issue concerning enough for the sport that the league recently formed a committee ai (Chart data from ...

NEW YORK -- The average time of a nine-inning major league game dropped to 2 hours, 40 minutes in the first year of the pitch clock, a 24-minute decrease in a season of change that resulted in a ...

The average time of a nine-inning game was 3:04 through the first 79 games of this season, according to STATS. That is up 8 minutes from a 2:56 average for the first 79 games last year.

Heading into the 2023 MLB season, there wasn't a question about whether the new pitch clock would decrease the length of games. The bigger question was how prevalent the timer would be in a game.

Major League Baseball is trying, but nothing is working. Despite rule changes and radical ideas to speed up the game, baseball has never been longer. At the start of play on August 15, the average ...

The average time of a nine-inning major league game dropped for the first time since 2018, likely helped by the introduction of the PitchCom electronic device to signal pitches.

NEW YORK (AP) Major League Baseball's average game time has slowed during the first week of the season and was back over 3 hours. The average time of a nine-inning game was 3:04 through the first ...