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Old 03-30-2023, 06:27 PM
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Default Pitch clock

I watched a few games today as I wanted to see the impact of the pitch clock which requires the pitcher to pitch within 15 seconds if no one is on base and 20 seconds if there is a runner on base.

It does speed up the game. I checked the time for some games and several were played in about 2.5 hours.

For the past several years, the average length of a game had been a little over 3 hours so the pitch clock appears to have a significant impact on the time of the game.

That seems like a good idea.