Every other game this postseason has lasted longer than three hours. Milwaukee-Atlanta lasted three hours on the dot, as Corbin Burnes tossed six shutout frames. The only individual game this postseason to last less than three hours was Giants-Dodgers Game 1, when Logan Webb worked quickly to shut out L.A. And that’s probably an undercount because the 2021 playoff data doesn’t include the World Series yet, and those games tend to last the longest of any round. But from 2011 to 2021, the average playoff game has increased by 22 minutes. From 2001 to 2011, the average playoff game increased by six minutes. From 1991 to 2001, the average playoff game increased by eight minutes. Game length has almost always increased, but now that increase is accelerating, too. This graph shows how the average nine-inning playoff game length has changed since 1969, the first season with intraleague playoffs before the World Series.
Remove the 13-inning, five-hour-and-14-minute battle between the Red Sox and Rays, and the average for nine-inning contests is still an absurd 3:38, the highest ever. The average playoff game this postseason has lasted a gobsmacking three hours and 42 minutes.
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The extreme game length that caused this overlap and prevented fans from devoting full attention to both crucial contests is not an aberration, however, but the new postseason norm. At the time of last pitch in the latter game, more than four hours after it started, the former was already in the bottom of the third.
At the time of first pitch in Fenway Park, home of the second game of the night, the opener in Dodger Stadium was just entering the seventh inning. Theoretically, that gap left enough time for baseball fans to watch all of both games-a modern MLB game, after all, is “supposed” to last about three hours.īut that assumption isn’t true anymore, and it isn’t true in the postseason, especially. The two championship series games on Tuesday night were scheduled to begin three hours apart.
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