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.
In 1993 the average length of a MLB game was 2:52. What I was more interested in was short games -- games of less than two and a half hours, which is now about as short as a game goes, and especially games running shorter than two hours. The latter is an endangered species.ere is the average length of a MLB game, starting with this year and going back at 10-year intervals to 1954, and then ending with 1950, the earliest year in Baseball Prospectus' database: That's a pretty clear trend.