A baseball games contain about 18 minutes of baseball!

The Wall Street Journal decided to conduct an experiment to see how much baseball was in a baseball game. The results? A 3-hour baseball games contains about 18 minutes of actual baseball action. The Journal said that they clocked in everything that could be remotely considered action – every pitch and things like fake pickoff throws and home run trots.

So, what makes up the rest of it? About 50% of the time (1:14:49) is down-time between pitches. Some more (33:39) is batter switching and 42:41 elapsed between innings. American seem to like their slow sports: The Journal also conducted an count a few years ago where they found Football has 11 minutes of action per NFL game.

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