NEW YORKNEW YORK — The average time of a nine-inning game is 2 hours, 36 minutes through the first full month of the major league season, down 1 minute from 2023 in the second year of the pitch clock.

NEW YORK (AP) — 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. MLB’s average fell from 3:04 in 2022 to ...

Major League Baseball added a pitch clock in 2023 with hopes of speeding up the game, and it paid immediate dividends in its first season. The average time for a nine-inning MLB game was two hours and ...

MLB’s 15 games on Opening Day averaged 2 hours and 45 minutes Thursday, 26 minutes shorter than last year’s average, indicating a successful regular-season start for the pitch clock introduced to ...