Posted on 09/03/2019 5:13:15 PM PDT by Jacquerie
Despite efforts to speed up baseball, the average time of a nine-inning game in Major League Baseball is three hours and five minutes.
That equals the mark which was set in 2017, after which MLB and the players’ association responded by limiting the number of mound visits per game. Other time-saving measures including shortened breaks between innings and eliminating pitches being thrown during intentional walks have been imposed, but MLB games still drag on a snail’s pace.
One of the biggest reasons games are taking so long is that batters are more focused on hitting home runs and pitchers are more focused on getting strikeouts. That combination has led to batters seeing an average of 3.92 pitchers per plate appearance, the highest mark in the 21 seasons the stat has been tracked.
In order to cut down on wasting time with pitching changes, pitchers will be forced to face at least three batters starting next year.
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This, along with pitchers staring for thirty seconds for a sign, only to shake it off and step off the rubber, is what has doomed baseball as a tv sport...the endless barrage of foul balls doesn’t help either...
Kang and Kodos try to fix MLB’s slow play, but there solutions has disastrous results for the universe (but, hey, at least they tried) ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XhEcOCVtrM
Hey brother... good to hear from you.
A lazy Sunday afternoon, a bottle of cold beer, a nice soft couch to crash out on, and a baseball game on the boobtube is always a small pleasure out of a busy week.
As for reloading... I hear you :^)....
I don’t think the games are that much longer now as compared to the old days. I checked youtube for complete game times in the 1950’s and they are around 2:45 to 3:00 hours. People are just more impatient or something.
Agreed. If I only want to watch a couple of innings, I will watch a couple of innings. If I want to watch an entire game, I will watch that. Summers are filled with baseball (for me). It has it’s own rhythm. As for me, don’t mess with it.
All of that sounds good, except swap out the boobtube for good company, and I’m good heh.
Also, no more foul balls are allowed when you are on strike 2. If you hit a foul on strike 2, it is considered strike 3 and you are OUT! Have a nice day.
Watching baseball is the best 3 hours I spend in the evening.
IF the batter circles in 20 seconds or less, so will all of the runners in front of him
I tape the playoff and series and fast forward using the little box in the conner. I watch when there are runners on base. No commercials, no batters stepping out of boxes, or very few.
If I’m paying $100 for a couple of mediocre tickets and a couple of stale hot dogs and some flat beer, I want the game to go extra innings.
Jocelyn Lemieux -- a journeyman player who is best known for being the brother of long-time agitator and three-time Stanley Cup champion Claude Lemieux -- once took a skate to the face. It sliced his face open vertically alongside his mouth. One of his teammates on the ice later described it by saying it looked like he had a second mouth on his face that opened perpendicular to the "original" one. LOL.
His lips and cheek were basically flapping as they hustled him off the ice.
He took 120 stitches in the locker room, then came out for the next period and finished the game.
If you spend a couple of hours (which is 2), you will miss the 7th, 8th and 9th innings.
the only time the game goes fast is when you’re in line at the snack bar
Limit the number of pitching changes in a game.
They do commercials between pitches now.
“...It has it’s own rhythm....”
Yes, indeed it does. It slows down for a bit, then explodes, then slows down again.
An awesome game, and part of us...
A good afternoon at the ballpark is also enjoyable... other than the ticket prices :^).
Sacrilege! That's actually a sign of a good hitter is the ability to foul off good pitches.
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