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.
Photos: Slowing down the game. The length of MLB games has increased by more than 30 minutes over the past 50 years. Five years ago, Major League Baseball sought to address its pace-of-game problem, issuing a directive to players, coaches, and umpires to â so to speak â make it snappy. From 2008 to 2011, games averaged around 2 hours and 51 minutes.