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title: How Baseball Game Length Changed Over 100 Years
date: 2024-03-26T00:00:00-05:00
author: Alex Munce
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[](https://www.lemonly.com/work)# [Lemonly](https://www.lemonly.com/work?client=lemonly) How Baseball Game Length Changed Over 100 Years 

 [Microcontent](https://www.lemonly.com/work?category=microcontent)Batter up! ⚾️ The 2024 MLB season is shaping up to be another year of shorter games thanks to the introduction of the pitch clock in 2023. After a century of increasingly long games, the new rules have made baseball games shorter (by about 30 minutes on average) and more consistent in length.

Here's a look at how the average baseball game length has changed over the past 100 years.

Sources: [Baseball-Reference](https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/majors/misc.shtml), [The Ringer](https://www.theringer.com/mlb/2023/5/1/23706488/pitch-clock-2023-shorter-games-uniform-duration) | [View source data](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16bs0FPDyBc6U7Rp9BHMKNrOR-zBFE_600lQZFjEVKmw/edit?usp=sharing)

 

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