MLB can only fix so much.
This season, the pastime that was resistant to significant changes acknowledged some of its flaws and installed once-unthinkable new rules to become a more entertaining product.
And it worked.
The pitch clock sped up nine-inning games an average of 24 minutes from the previous season, marking the shortest average game length (2 hours, 39 minutes) since 1985. According to Forbes, only nine games this season lasted at least 3½ hours. In 2021, there were 390 such games.
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