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class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Giovanny_Gallegos_pitching_for_the_GCL_Yankees_in_2012_%28Cropped%29.jpg/270px-Giovanny_Gallegos_pitching_for_the_GCL_Yankees_in_2012_%28Cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Giovanny_Gallegos_pitching_for_the_GCL_Yankees_in_2012_%28Cropped%29.jpg/360px-Giovanny_Gallegos_pitching_for_the_GCL_Yankees_in_2012_%28Cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1501" data-file-height="2464" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Giovanny_Gallegos" title="Giovanny Gallegos">Giovanny Gallegos</a> was one of the slowest pitchers during the 2022 MLB season<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Baseball" title="Baseball">baseball</a>, <b>pace of play</b> refers to the length of time between in-game action, specifically the length of time a <a href="/wiki/Pitcher" title="Pitcher">pitcher</a> takes between their pitches. A slow pace of play can extend the length of games, which is regarded as an issue in <a href="/wiki/College_baseball" title="College baseball">college baseball</a> and <a href="/wiki/Professional_baseball" title="Professional baseball">professional baseball</a>. To accelerate the pace of play, leagues have instituted rule changes, such as the implementation of a <a href="/wiki/Pitch_clock" title="Pitch clock">pitch clock</a> in <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball" title="Major League Baseball">Major League Baseball</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pace_of_play&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Game length in <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball" title="Major League Baseball">Major League Baseball</a> (MLB) has increased over time, with the <a href="/wiki/1988_New_York_Yankees_season" title="1988 New York Yankees season">1988 New York Yankees</a> being the first team to average over three hours per game.<sup id="cite_ref-cbs_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cbs-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From 2004 through 2014, MLB games increased from an average of 2.85 hours to 3.13 hours.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This was in spite of decreases in scoring, with MLB teams scoring 4.1 runs per game in 2014, down from 5.14 in 2000.<sup id="cite_ref-cbs_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cbs-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The amount of time a pitcher takes between pitches directly affects pace of play, and varies widely. In the 2022 MLB season, the last season before the league implemented a pitch clock, the slowest working pitcher was <a href="/wiki/Giovanny_Gallegos" title="Giovanny Gallegos">Giovanny Gallegos</a> of the <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Cardinals" title="St. Louis Cardinals">St. Louis Cardinals</a>, who averaged 25.8 seconds between pitches with the bases empty, while the quickest working pitcher was <a href="/wiki/Wade_Miley" title="Wade Miley">Wade Miley</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Cubs" title="Chicago Cubs">Chicago Cubs</a>, who averaged 11.4 seconds.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Rules_changes">Rules changes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pace_of_play&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Rules changes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In college baseball, the <a href="/wiki/Southeastern_Conference" title="Southeastern Conference">Southeastern Conference</a> experimented with a 20-second <a href="/wiki/Pitch_clock" title="Pitch clock">pitch clock</a> during the 2010 season,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/National_Collegiate_Athletic_Association" title="National Collegiate Athletic Association">National Collegiate Athletic Association</a> instituted the pitch clock before the 2011 season for when no runners are on base.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the 2014 season, the <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_League_of_Professional_Baseball" title="Atlantic League of Professional Baseball">Atlantic League of Professional Baseball</a> instituted its own changes. These included using a 12-second pitch clock, reducing timeouts and warm-up pitches, and making <a href="/wiki/Intentional_walk" class="mw-redirect" title="Intentional walk">intentional walks</a> automatic by signalling the <a href="/wiki/Umpire_(baseball)" title="Umpire (baseball)">umpire</a>, rather than throwing four intentional <a href="/wiki/Ball_(baseball_statistics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ball (baseball statistics)">balls</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Arizona_Fall_League" title="Arizona Fall League">Arizona Fall League</a> began using a pitch clock in 2014 and the <a href="/wiki/Double-A_(baseball)" title="Double-A (baseball)">Double-A</a> and <a href="/wiki/Triple-A_(baseball)" title="Triple-A (baseball)">Triple-A</a> levels of <a href="/wiki/Minor_League_Baseball" title="Minor League Baseball">Minor League Baseball</a> followed suit in 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Those levels saw a 12-minute reduction in game times.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Pitch_clock!_(16998109219).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Pitch_clock%21_%2816998109219%29.jpg/250px-Pitch_clock%21_%2816998109219%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="166" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Pitch_clock%21_%2816998109219%29.jpg/375px-Pitch_clock%21_%2816998109219%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Pitch_clock%21_%2816998109219%29.jpg/500px-Pitch_clock%21_%2816998109219%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4928" data-file-height="3264" /></a><figcaption>A pitch clock displayed at <a href="/wiki/Werner_Park" title="Werner Park">Werner Park</a> in 2015</figcaption></figure> <p>Towards the end of the 2014 season, <a href="/wiki/Commissioner_of_Baseball" title="Commissioner of Baseball">Commissioner of Baseball</a> <a href="/wiki/Bud_Selig" title="Bud Selig">Bud Selig</a> announced the formation of a committee to examine the issue. <a href="/wiki/John_Schuerholz" title="John Schuerholz">John Schuerholz</a> chaired the committee, which also included <a href="/wiki/Sandy_Alderson" title="Sandy Alderson">Sandy Alderson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tony_Clark" title="Tony Clark">Tony Clark</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rob_Manfred" title="Rob Manfred">Rob Manfred</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joe_Torre" title="Joe Torre">Joe Torre</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Tom_Werner" title="Tom Werner">Tom Werner</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Manfred, having succeeded Selig as the Commissioner in 2015, instituted rule changes to MLB before the start of the <a href="/wiki/2015_MLB_season" class="mw-redirect" title="2015 MLB season">2015 MLB season</a> to address pace of play, including having batters remain in the <a href="/wiki/Batters_box" class="mw-redirect" title="Batters box">batters box</a> and the installation of time clocks to limit the time spent around <a href="/wiki/Commercial_break" class="mw-redirect" title="Commercial break">commercial breaks</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2015, MLB had a committee discuss bringing back the <a href="/wiki/Bullpen_car" title="Bullpen car">bullpen car</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Prior to the <a href="/wiki/2017_MLB_season" class="mw-redirect" title="2017 MLB season">2017 MLB season</a>, the rules were amended to allow a <a href="/wiki/Manager_(baseball)" title="Manager (baseball)">manager</a> to order an automatic intentional walk.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> MLB and the <a href="/wiki/MLB_Players_Association" class="mw-redirect" title="MLB Players Association">MLB Players Association</a> (MLBPA) discussed the possibility of introducing the pitch clock at the major league level for the 2018 season.<sup id="cite_ref-opinions_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-opinions-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> MLB opted against imposing it unilaterally, over the opposition of the MLBPA.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Before the 2018 season, MiLB took major actions, including adding pitch clocks at all levels, beginning each <a href="/wiki/Extra_inning" class="mw-redirect" title="Extra inning">extra inning</a> with a runner on second base, and restricting the number of mound visits for full-season <a href="/wiki/Class_A_(baseball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Class A (baseball)">Class A</a> through Triple-A teams.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Also, the <a href="/wiki/Arizona_Diamondbacks" title="Arizona Diamondbacks">Arizona Diamondbacks</a> of MLB announced they would introduce their first <a href="/wiki/Bullpen_car" title="Bullpen car">bullpen car</a> in 2018.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Minor League Baseball expanded its pace of play initiatives in 2019 by requiring Double-A and Triple-A pitchers to face a minimum of three consecutive batters unless the side is retired or the pitcher becomes injured and is unable to continue playing.<sup id="cite_ref-2019MiLB_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2019MiLB-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Also, the number of allowed mound visits was reduced: Class A (9 visits), Double-A (7 visits), and Triple-A (5 visits).<sup id="cite_ref-2019MiLB_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2019MiLB-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As an experimental step to accelerate pace of play, MLB implemented 20-second pitch clocks during spring training games in 2019. <sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After a successful trial in <a href="/wiki/California_League" title="California League">Low-A West</a> in 2021, MLB allowed teams to use <a href="/wiki/PitchCom" title="PitchCom">PitchCom</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Wireless" title="Wireless">wireless</a> communications system, to request pitches starting in the <a href="/wiki/2022_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="2022 Major League Baseball season">2022 season</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-mlb-2022-04-05_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mlb-2022-04-05-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Through their first 54 games in 2022, the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Yankees" title="New York Yankees">New York Yankees</a> played 25 games (about 47%) in less than three hours. In 2021, only about 25% of the Yankees' games finished in three hours or less.<sup id="cite_ref-nydailynews-2022-06_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nydailynews-2022-06-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On September 8, 2022, MLB announced a set of rules changes that will take effect in 2023, including the use of a pitch clock.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These rules were implemented from the start of spring training prior to the 2023 season (though they were not in place for the World Baseball Classic, played during 2023 spring training) to allow players, managers and umpires to adjust to the rules. Player representatives to the competition committee, the body responsible for the rule changes, voted against implementing the pitch clock and infield positioning restrictions.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The changes had been trialed in the minor leagues starting in the 2021 season, with larger bases tested in Triple-A games, defensive positioning limits in Double-A and limited step-offs in Single-A. The pitch clock was introduced at all minor league levels in 2022.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Among the 2023 rules changes designed to improve pace of play by leaving less dead time between pitches and balls in play were the following: </p> <ul><li>Implementation of a pitch clock (or pitch timer): Upon receiving the ball from catcher or umpire, a pitcher will have fifteen seconds to make their next pitch. If there is a runner on base this is extended to twenty seconds. Exceeding this window will result in a ball being assessed. Batters must be in the batter's box, alert to the pitcher and ready to receive a pitch with no less than eight seconds left on the pitch clock. Batters not ready for a pitch with eight seconds remaining on the pitch clock are assessed a strike. Additionally, a thirty second clock will run between batters.<sup id="cite_ref-:02_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:02-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Limited batter time-outs: Batters may only ask the umpire for a time-out once per at-bat. After a requested time-out the pitch clock will be restarted at fifteen (bases empty) or twenty (one or more runners on base) seconds.<sup id="cite_ref-:02_25-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:02-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Limited pick-off attempts (or disengagements): Pitchers are allowed only two disengagements in any at-bat. These include both an actual throw to a base and a step-off from the pitching rubber. A third attempt that does not result in an out will be called a balk with baserunners advancing one base. First and second disengagements reset the pitch clock and a runner advancing via stolen base or balk resets the disengagement allowance.<sup id="cite_ref-:02_25-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:02-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>As in the last four seasons teams are limited to five mound visits per nine-inning game, but visits to remedy <a href="/wiki/PitchCom" title="PitchCom">Pitch Com</a> malfunctions are excepted. Pitch Com is the system that allows catchers to electronically signal to the pitcher which pitch they want thrown. During spring training teams were allowed to experiment with an additional Pitch Com option that allows pitchers to signal their pitch to catchers.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:12_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:12-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>To initiate a replay challenge, managers must now immediately signal that they are considering a challenge—rather than having ten seconds after a play to do so—and then must decide whether to formally challenge the call on the field within fifteen seconds instead of twenty seconds as before 2023.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>Near the end of the 2023 spring training MLB sent a memo to clubs clarifying some of these rules, among others, and noted that umpires had discretion to extend between-innings timing, delay the start of the pitch clock or make other allowances when the course of play required it, provided players were not viewed as attempting to game the system. In particular this was meant to address situations when catchers required time to put on protective equipment between innings, when pitchers ended a play well away from the mound and to reduce the opportunities for pitchers to game the pitch clock with quick pitches.<sup id="cite_ref-:12_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:12-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Additional rule changes, including restrictions on defensive positioning in the infield and an increase in the size of bases, were also designed to result in more balls in play and more baserunning activity, though not explicitly to increase the pace of play.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These are in part a reaction to stolen base totals reaching a fifty-year low in 2021 and the league-wide batting average reaching .243 in 2022, its lowest since 1968. Major League Baseball is promoting these changes with an advertising campaign using the slogan, "Three New Rules. More Great Action."<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>2023 Spring training games played prior to March 22, 2023 averaged two hours, 36 minutes, about 25 minutes faster than the average time from 2022. Timing violations by pitchers and batters fell from 2.03 per game during the first week of spring training to 1.03 per game during the fourth week.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>For games played in the first week of the 2023 season, average game time was more than a half-hour shorter that in the 2021 season. Only four of the 2023 season's first 97 games were longer than the average game time from the 2022 season.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Pitch clock violations numbered 125 in the first 141 games of the 2023 season, or .89 per game, with about two thirds of these violations called on the pitcher.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pace_of_play&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pace_of_play_(cricket)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pace of play (cricket)">Pace of play 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