A MLB question

[mapuc]

Didn't want to start a new thread I could not find any to post my question in.

One of our sport channel is sending live each night from the MLB World Series Final .Tonight is final 2...missed most of the first did see a guy name Soto make a hr.

My question is

How long is a final in average.

According to the schedule in their programguide it says start 0200 ends 0900.
Is a final in the World Series 7 hours long ?

I want to program my USB...but I don't want to record all 7 hours if the game is only 4-5 hours long.

When one of you have answered my question any moderators can delete this thread.

Markus

[Platapus]

Unfortunately, baseball games are determined by innings which are dependent not on time but on the number of outs. Innings can be very short and very long. There is no way to predict how long it will take.



Then, of course, there is the chance (uncommon) of extra innings if the score is tied at the end of the 9th.


If recording the game is important to you, you might want to give yourself plenty of time. You can always delete the following show if the game ends quickly.

[mapuc]

Thank you.

I knew there are nine innings in a MLB-game I didn't knew there could be extra innings..but when thinking in every other types of games they have OT or sudden death.

I do as you recommend record all 7 hours.. and delete what's left after the final is over.

It's fun to watch MLB.

Markus

[Falkirion]

Yeah MLB has extra innings if scores are tied at the end of 9. I remember watching a White Sox game while I was in Chicago and they were up to 14 innings at 2am before I stopped. Think the game went to 16 or more before it was over.


7 hours is a fair estimate for most games that go for 9 though. I went to Fenway for a match that started at 6:30pm and left the ground at 9:30 or 10pm. Most innings went by quick but the final 3 dragged as fatigue set into the teams.


Even if you miss game 2, there's still games 3 and 4 minimum before a winner is crowned though. Most US leagues function on a best of 7 game series. Unless you're the NFL, think that's a knock out tournament for the post season.

[MaDef]

last year game 3 between the Red Sox and the Dodgers went 18 innings and lasted 7 hr and 20 min. Dodgers won 3-2.

[mapuc]

I did wrote one of our moderators could erase this thread when I got an answer.

I was expecting this was the case.

The game itself was interesting to see

Especially in the seventh innings where Washington Nationals went from 2 to 8 points.

I don't feel for recording the rest of this World Series.

Reason all these commercial, about 6-7 per hours destroyed the fun of the game, I'm sick and tired of all these commercials interruption in a game.

Yes I could fastspeed through these breaks, but it did destroy the game.

Markus

[vienna]

last year game 3 between the Red Sox and the Dodgers went 18 innings and lasted 7 hr and 20 min. Dodgers won 3-2.


The Giants and Mets beat that record by 3 minutes; in 1964, they played a game that lasted 23 innings and was 7 hours and 23 minutes long; it was also the second game in a double header played on that day, with the first game going for the regulation 9 innings; this means both teams played a total of 32 innings that day:


5 of the longest, strangest games in MLB history --

https://www.mlb.com/cut4/5-of-the-longest-strangest-games-in-mlb-history/c-174486106


I was still living in San Francisco at the time, was (and still am) a Giants fan; I recall there was a Catholic archbishop who had attended the first game in New York and left in the third inning of the first game to catch an air flight back to San Francisco; when he got to SFO, he caught a taxi back to The City and noticed the driver was listening to a ball game on his car radio; he realized it was the Giants vs. the Mets and thought it was a replay of one of the double-header games and, when he asked the driver which game was being rebroadcast, he was shocked to learn it was a live broadcast of the second game; the archbishop had flown clear across the country before the game ended...







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