Passan’ Time: MLB Pitch Clock Debuts + Pablo Says Goodbye
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The Journey to the Pitch Clock
The average time for a baseball game to be played in 1924 was an hour and 54 minutes. In 1965, Charlie Finley, the owner of the Kansas City is one of the great characters in baseball history. He knew of rule 8.04, which said a pitcher must deliver a pitch within 20 seconds, or he will be assessed an automatic ball. But in 1965, there had been talk of a pitch clock just banter,. The idea that, hey, maybe this is something that the sport needs.
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