Why MLB games are FIVE MINUTES longer this season

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Baseball commissioning Aaron Judge Womens Jersey must have seemed so easy at first. Rob Manfred took over in January 2015, announced his intention to speed up the game and immediately got results. A nine-inning game shrank by six Austin Romine Authentic Jersey minutes from 2014 to 2015, matching the largest decrease ever. At that pace, baseball would be gone entirely within 30 years and Manfred could retire. But as with two-homer games on Bernie Williams Womens Jersey Opening Day, this pace would not hold. Baseball added back four minutes per contest last year, and this year's games will almost certainly set a new record. Despite a few small changes for the 2017 season -- requiring managers to decide more promptly whether to challenge Brian Roberts Kids Jersey an umpire's call and making intentional walks automatic -- the average nine-inning contest is now 3 hours, 5 minutes -- the longest average in baseball history and up five minutes from last year. That's also already the second-largest year-over-year increase since integration. And since Dellin Betances Youth Jersey games get slower with September call-ups, the final month will quite possibly add a minute or two to that average. Manfred, who Don Mattingly Womens Jersey remains insistent that the league will do something about this, has drawn a distinction between time of game and pace of game. As he told reporters in June: