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Originally Posted by monkeyman576
There are other factors in play but in a vacuum more hits and more pitches do cause longer games.
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More plate appearances do but PAs per game have gone down since the 90s and games are still longer now than they were then. This past year, games took 3:10 to play per 9 innings, a new record. In 1995, when there was a lot more offense than there is today, games took 2:50 to play. If you go back to 1985, which is a couple years before the A's won the World Series and made everyone in the league copy their bullpen strategy, games averaged 2:39 per 9 innings.