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Major League Baseball is vowing to shorten the average length of its games.

Officials have other ideas in mind in an effort to move things along. Last year's average was 2 hours and 54 minutes. Under the theory that most baseball games should not last longer than "Ben-Hur," action is being taken.

Games are to start on time (a revolutionary idea). Pitchers are to throw the ball within 12 seconds after the batter gets in the box, if no one is on base. If it's long enough to run the 110-meter hurdles, it's long enough to throw a slider.

I do not know if they plan to install something like a Basketball shot clock behind home plate.

Pitching changes are to take no longer than 2 minutes, 30 seconds. Which, in the case of some bullpens, might be longer than the reliever lasts.

Breaks between half-innings for commercials are to be strictly kept at 2 minutes, 5 seconds or 2 minutes, 25 seconds for nationally televised games.

That's a knee-slapper. Games are routinely delayed so the networks can squeeze in a sitcom promo here, or a news show plug there. Baseball shouldn't put a stopwatch on the field, it should put one in the production truck.

Only 10 seconds of music between at-bats. How long should it take to play "Charge!" on the organ?

One other thing. Hitters are to bring two extra bats to the on-deck circle, in case they either break one or need a spare to go after the pitcher.

"What we want to do," said Bob Watson, baseball's vice president of on-field operations, "is basically cut down the dead time."

By that, I don't think he meant eliminating the Pittsburgh Pirates' at-bats.

It is an admirable effort. There is nothing wrong with long games if there is enough baseball to fill the hours. But a lot of today's 3-hour games should be 2 hours and 40 minutes.

And the postseason often does not have games, but epochs.

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Baseball is one of the few sports that is not timed.

The average time for a baseball game has been increasing steadily over the years. As of 2004, the average time was 2 hours and 48 minutes. The longest nine inning baseball game was 4 hours and 45 minutes between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox in 2006. The shortest game was 1 hour and 15 minutes between the Cincinnati Reds and the Atlanta Braves in 1944.

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well the beauty of Baseball id that it is not measured in time at all it is measured by the ability that the opposing team has to get the other team out. there are 9 innings in a standard baseball game all of which consisting of 3 outs. depending on how long it takes each team to get there three outs each innings that's how long the game will take. anywhere from 1 and a half hours to 10 hours

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In a normal MLB game it is not uncommon to see 3 to 4 pitchers used in a 9 inning game.

Many pitchers are capable of pitching a full 9 innings and many have. The general rotation usually allows a team to have a starter who pitches 5 - 7 innings, a reliever who takes over for when the starter is tired, and a closer who generally is called upon when the team is winning to stop the opposing team from scoring any runs in the final 1 or 2 innings.

If you are asking how many pitches are thrown in a single game there are far too many variables that influence the outcome of that statistic. The average I believe falls around the 100 - 150 mark per game per team. So anywhere between 200 and 300 pitches for both teams in an entire game.

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In 1910 one of the first seasons of baseball the Boston Braves beat the New york Yankees 1-0 in the ninth inning after 5 hours and 4 minutes

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There is no clock in baseball and there are no ties. Game can last forever.

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