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.
Baseball picks up pace: World Series games 25 minutes shorter. To those critics (including yours truly) complaining about how long baseball game telecasts last on TV, here's some good news. The 2010 World Series games between the San Francisco Giants and Texas Rangers on Fox were a full 25 minutes shorter on average than last year's New York Yankees-Philadelphia Phillies series. The Giants' Game 5 clincher was the shortest Fall Classic game in 18 years.