{"id":190550,"date":"2025-09-29T19:23:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T19:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/190550\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T19:23:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T19:23:06","slug":"average-time-of-mlb-game-up-2-minutes-in-3rd-year-of-pitch-clock-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/190550\/","title":{"rendered":"Average time of MLB game up 2 minutes in 3rd year of pitch clock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; The average time of a nine-inning major league baseball game increased by 2 minutes this season to 2:38 in the third year of the pitch clock.<\/p>\n<p>MLB&#8217;s average fell from 3:04 in 2022 to 2:40 the following year when the clock was instituted and decreased to 2:36 in 2024, its lowest since 1984&#8217;s 2:35.<\/p>\n<p>The average game time passed 3 hours for the first time in 2016. It reached a record 3:10 in 2021 before the introduction of the PitchCom electronic pitch-calling device helped bring it down to 3:04 in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Three nine-inning games lasted 3:30 or longer this year, down from 391 such games in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK &#8212; The average time of a nine-inning major league baseball game increased by 2 minutes this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-190550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}