1 In 1998 ROBERTO BEGNINI (who won Best Actor and Best Foreign Film awards as the writer/director/star of  Life is Beautiful ) became only the second person to have won an Oscar for acting in a foreign language film.
NEW YORK (AP) â Major League Baseball's average game time has slowed during the first week of the season and was back over 3 hours. The average time of a nine-inning game was 3:04 through the first 79 games of this season, according to STATS. That is up 8 minutes from a 2:56 average for the first 79 games last year. MLB introduced new pace-of-game initiatives last season, and the average time dropped from 3:03 during the first full week in 2014.
A baseball game lasts 9 innings. (Each side is allowed 3 outs per 1/2 inning. Typically this results in a game between 2 hours (abnormally short) and 4.5 hours (abnormally long) in duration. The schedule you saw reflects consecutive games.