Ahead of the 2023 Major League Baseball season, a pitch clock was introduced to speed up the pace of the game. As a result, an average game during the 2024 MLB season lasted 2 hours and 36 minutes. This was more than 25 minutes shorter than an average game during the 2022 season, when the pitch clock had not yet been introduced.
Average length of Major League Baseball games from 2000 to 2024
(in hours)
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Baseball Reference. (January 8, 2025). Average length of Major League Baseball games from 2000 to 2024 (in hours) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved January 08, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1310998/mlb-game-length/
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Baseball Reference. (2025). Average length of Major League Baseball games from 2000 to 2024 (in hours). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: January 08, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1310998/mlb-game-length/
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Average length of Major League Baseball games from 2000 to 2024 (in hours) [Graph], Baseball Reference, January 8, 2025. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1310998/mlb-game-length/
