When to Go. The South Pacific islands covered in this guide lie within the tropics. Compared to the pronounced winters and summers of the temperate zones, there is little variation from one island group to the next: They are warm and humid all year.
While an increase in run scoring pushed the average MLB game over three hours for the first time in the year 2000, the current trend comes at a time when offense has declined across the league. Games averaged 3.13 hours â or three hours and eight minutes â in 2014, the longest of any year in a Baseball Prospectus archive that dates back to 1950.
Why does the MLB play 162 games? In 1961 and 1962, when first the A and then the NL expanded from 8 to 10 teams, the schedule was increased from 154 geams (equal to 22 games, 11 home and 11 away, against eachâ¦ of the other teams in the league) to 162 games (equal to 18 games, 9 home and 9 away).