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MLB Time Of Game Reaching All-Time Highs, On Pace To Eclipse Marks Set In '14

MLB’s average game time for nine-inning contests this season has “hit 3 hours, 5 minutes, which would be an all-time high by three minutes for a full season, and a 3% increase” from 3 hours last season, according to Gabe Lacques of USA TODAY. Including extra-inning games, the “average game time is 3 hours, 9 minutes.” Both numbers “trump all-time highs of 3:02 and 3:07” set in ‘14. Monday's games are indicative of the data -- all eight games were completed in nine innings and “six of the eight were won by the home team, which means the bottom of the ninth inning was not played.” Still, the slate “averaged 3 hours, 16 minutes” (USA TODAY, 6/28).

DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY: In S.F., Bruce Jenkins writes baseball fans should not get "too exasperated over the torrent of home runs, strikeouts, delayed replay decisions, dawdling pitchers and players changing their 'launch angle' to a full-uppercut swing." That is all "just chatter, and an obsession with numbers." The game really "has not changed.” Jenkins: “Forever unpredictable, baseball tends to self-correct its aberrations" (S.F. CHRONICLE, 6/28).

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