The average nine-inning Major League Baseball playoff game has taken three hours and 22 minutes to complete in 2013, according to figures from the league.
During the regular season, the average was two hours and 59 minutes.
Joe Garagiola Jr., who reports to Joe Torre as baseball's senior vice president of standards and on-field operations, said MLB is constantly thinking of ways to keep games moving.
"These are the most important games of the year, so you don't want to ask teams to start doing things that really impact how they approach the game," Garagiola said. "That said, the umpires will encourage teams to try to maintain a good pace, because I think everybody likes that.
"But if people are taking a little more time between pitches, or batters are stepping out because they want to compose themselves, it's because somebody is going to be the world champion at the end of the next eight or nine days. You can't lose sight of that."
