average baseball game length
The sample size is small, but not so small that MLB officials arenât eager to trumpet the results: the average length of a baseball game in 2015 is down almost eight minutes from last year. Advertisement. The 79 nine-inning games so far this year have averaged 2:54:39, down from 3:02:25 in 2014. Thatâs a huge difference! And before you discount the numbers after one week, ESPN notes that the final 2014 game length came in just four seconds off its first-week average.