Miami Marlins’ Luis Arraez stand within the on-deck circle subsequent to the pitch clock throughout the ninth inning of a baseball recreation in opposition to the Baltimore Orioles, July 16, 2023, in Baltimore. Main League Baseball is preserving the pitch clock the identical for the postseason because it was for the common season, brushing apart complaints from some gamers. Credit score: AP/Terrance Williams
The pitch clock is seen as Tampa Bay Rays’ Luke Raley stands close to the on deck circle within the second inning of a baseball recreation in opposition to the Baltimore Orioles, Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023, in Baltimore. Credit score: AP/Julio Cortez
NEW YORK — Main League Baseball can have impartial clock operators within the first postseason of pitch timers.
MLB evaluated every group’s clock operators throughout the common season and mentioned Friday it would choose as much as a dozen of one of the best performers for postseason video games, which begin Oct. 3.
A clock operator can not work a postseason recreation involving the group whose video games the operator instances throughout the common season.
As well as, every postseason collection can have the identical clock operator for all video games of that collection.
The typical time of a nine-inning recreation has been decreased to 2 hours, 40 minutes from 3:04 final 12 months, on observe to be the quickest since 1984.
MLB set the clock at 15 seconds with no runners on base and 20 seconds with runners.
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The pitch clock is seen as Tampa Bay Rays’ Luke Raley stands close to the on deck circle within the second inning of a baseball recreation in opposition to the Baltimore Orioles, Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023, in Baltimore. Credit score: AP/Julio Cortez
AP freelance author Mark Didtler contributed to this report.