Late innings means late nights in the World Series, with many fans struggling to stay awake as the Braves and Astros play baseball's most important games of the year.
The first five Series games averaged 3 hours, 41 minutes, up from 3:37 for the Los Angeles Dodgers' six-game win over Tampa Bay last year. The opener took 4:06 and Game 5 lasted exactly 4 hours, both ending after midnight on the East Coast.Sooner or later, Major League Baseball will institute a pitch clock -- with or without an agreement with the players' association.
As part of a March 2019 agreement that increased active rosters from 25 to 26 players and mandated a pitcher face three batters or finish an inning, MLB agreed not to implement a pitch clock through 2021. Asked what he thought of MLB's experiments at minor league levels, he responded: "The experience in some instances has been less than favorable."
MLB experimented with a 20-second pitch clock during spring training in 2019, with a cutout on the first pitch of every plate appearance. The 316 nine-inning games with the clock averaged 2:41, down from 3:02 for the 91 games without a clock.
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