It also includes dietary fiber which is a carbohydrate but which does not contribute much in the way of food energy (calories), even though it is often included in the calculation of total food energy just as though it were a sugar.
In the 35 nine-inning games played through last night, the average length of a MLB game has been 2 hours, 52 minutes , according to Michael Teevan, spokesperson for Major League Baseball.
The average time to complete a nine-inning game in the 1970s -- not including on-field delays -- was two hours and 30 minutes. That increased to an average of 2:57 in the 10-year span from 2000-09. Through Thursday, this year's league average was 2:51, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. In the playoffs, game times have been longer. Last season, nine-inning regular-season games lasted an average of 2:52, while in the postseason, that number jumped to 3:30, according to STATS LLC. But, as Selig said during the Target Field opener in Minneapolis on April 12, It isn't the time of the game, it's the pace of the game.