It's About Time . . .

[David B]

Originally Posted by Tim C

No this thread has nothing to do with either Joe E. Ross or Imogene Coca . . .

I am still stuck on an earlier thread where we were discussing the "average" time of a varsity high school baseball game.

We had a wide range of estimates of length of games. We were doing fine until one poster decided to place arbitrary time limits on individual activities.

Here's my sitaution:

Game #4001 was a varsity high school game betwix two pretty good teams.

The final score was 8-7. We had a 5 run bottom of the first and a 6 run top of the 7th for the losing visitor.

We finished in 1:29.

Since the original thread I have been talking to local umpires and all feel "most games" go between 1:30 and 1:45 @ the high school varsity level (sure we have games that go forever but I am talking average).

Now I don't think high school baseball is any better (or any worse) than other areas in the US -- my questions falls back to the original thread:

Why do games in certain areas take 2:00 as an average and other areas considerably less?

Enquiring minds type thing.

Regards,

I've noticed in our state, I'm living in north part now whereas I've lived in the south part the last 18 years:

Games in the south were much faster. Kids know how to pitch and coaches know how to keep the games moving.

In the north, I see much fewer good pitchers and coaches tend to drag around a lot which I fault the umpires.

In my games, most of them are under an hour average mainly because I've had so many five inning ten-run rule games.

So I'm thinking its because of pitching and umpires letting coaches control the game is why its slower where I am now.

Doubleheader last night, 1:45 first game, 1:40 second game.

Tuesday night 3 hours (went 10 innings) and just over two hours.

Thanks
David