The average game went 2:45, 18 minutes shorter than last year’s average of 3:03. The Yankees-Giants game on Opening Day wrapped in a tidy 2:33, and Mets-Marlins clocked in at 2:42. Opening Day MLB games were 18 minutes shorter than the average length of last year’s games due to the pitch clock. At least once - usually multiple times - as recent nine-inning baseball games have dragged on past 3 ½ and four hours there will be some voice screeching from the upper deck who has grown weary from inactivity: “JUST THROW THE DAMNED BALL!” is the cleanest version of this complaint. That said: this was not a just a complaint of ink-stained wretches. I shall plead nolo contendere on behalf of myself and every one of my colleagues. I get it: No demographic has both waxed poetic through the years about baseball’s timeless (and clock-less) nature and complained about the fact the games take forever than the men and women who write about baseball. But it is hard to shake the notion that the 2023 season, even in the wee small hours of early morning, looks different - better - than the one we last saw as midnight struck on the 2022 season.Īnd let us count the ways: 1.
OK: This is a ridiculously small sample size upon which to pass judgment, I get that. The game is better this year than it was last year. Those things are all a part of his permanent record. There have been a lot of things that Rob Manfred has done in the eight years since he assumed stewardship of Major League Baseball from Bud Selig that I’ve taken issue with, found fault with. Knicks must apply lessons learned from Hawks playoff defeat to beat Cavaliers Knicks will be coming home to 'electric' MSG: 'Floor's going to be shaking'
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