Major League Baseball made a few changes to their rules. They made some new rules to speed up the game. The average 2014 game lasted 3 hours and 2 minutes. Baseball has an issue with keeping spectators interested because the games are so long.
Here are the new rules:
A batter must keep at least one foot in the batter's box, unless certain exceptions occur.
The new timers will measure non-game action and the time between innings and pitching changes, counting down from 2:25 for locally televised games and from 2:45 for nationally televised games. Batters will be "encouraged" to get into the batter’s box with 20 seconds left on the timer, MLB said.
Pitchers can throw as many warm-up pitches as they want prior to 30 seconds remaining on the clock but will forfeit any of their traditional eight warm-up pitches that they cannot complete by that deadline.
MLB also announced several changes to its use of the instant replay system, including allowing managers to challenge a call from the dugout rather than by approaching an umpire.
Do you think that these new rules will help?
Information from: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/major-league-baseball-issues-rules-speed-games-171019647--mlb.html
Here are the new rules:
A batter must keep at least one foot in the batter's box, unless certain exceptions occur.
The new timers will measure non-game action and the time between innings and pitching changes, counting down from 2:25 for locally televised games and from 2:45 for nationally televised games. Batters will be "encouraged" to get into the batter’s box with 20 seconds left on the timer, MLB said.
Pitchers can throw as many warm-up pitches as they want prior to 30 seconds remaining on the clock but will forfeit any of their traditional eight warm-up pitches that they cannot complete by that deadline.
MLB also announced several changes to its use of the instant replay system, including allowing managers to challenge a call from the dugout rather than by approaching an umpire.
Do you think that these new rules will help?
Information from: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/major-league-baseball-issues-rules-speed-games-171019647--mlb.html