Baseball Time

Whilst verifying a fact presented in Gmelch's Inside Pitch, I ran across this 2013 article from the Wall Street Journal, in which the writer clocked three MLB games to get an idea of how time in the average three-hour-plus game is spent.

First, the conclusion:

Huge chunks of inaction that absolutely dwarf everything else that goes on in the game.

The breakdown:

• 0:17:58  Action (or, ball in play)
• 0:33:39  Time between batters
• 0:42:41  Time between innings
• 1:14:49  Time between pitches

Might you know of a similar study with a larger data set?

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