The game is better this year than it was last year.
OK: This is a ridiculously small sample size upon which to pass judgment, I get that. But it is hard to shake the notion that the 2023 season, even in the wee small hours of early morning, looks different — better — than the one we last saw as midnight struck on the 2022 season. I get it: No demographic has both waxed poetic through the years about baseball’s timeless nature and complained about the fact the games take forever than the men and women who write about baseball.
Opening Day MLB games were 18 minutes shorter than the average length of last year’s games due to the pitch clock.. The Yankees-Giants game on Opening Day wrapped in a tidy 2:33, and Mets-Marlins clocked in at 2:42. The average game went 2:45, 18 minutes shorter than last year’s average of 3:03. And the seven games played on Opening Day last year stretched to an average of 3:11. Apologies to Max Scherzer, shorter games are better games for everybody, and the pitch clock is the engine for that.
Anthony Volpe steals second base during the Yankees’ win over the Giants on March 30, one of 21 stolen bases across the 15 Opening Day games.Yep, for years I was among the brigade who screamed: big-league hitters should figure out how to beat the shift. I was flipped by two realities: a) the original shift was created for Ted Williams, and Teddy Ballgame figured out how to hit .
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