The average time of a nine-inning game in the League Championship Series rose 12 minutes to three hours and 16 minutes this year.
The increase came along with a bump in scoring as well.
However, the overall postseason game time has fallen by two minutes to 3:00 in the second year of the pitch clock.
The LCS average was 3:40 in 2021, then fell to 3:26 in the first season of the PitchCom electronic pitch-calling device and 3:04 last year when the pitch clock was instituted.
Runs per game in the LCS averaged 11.3, up from 8.8 in 2023 and 7.9 in 2022 and 9.9 in 2021.
Via Associated Press