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.
There is nothing wrong with long games if there is enough baseball to fill the hours. But a lot of today's 3-hour games should be 2 hours and 40 minutes. And the postseason often does not have games, but epochs. Major League Baseball is vowing to shorten the average length of its games. Officials have other ideas in mind in an effort to move things along. Last year's average was 2 hours and 54 minutes. Under the theory that most baseball games should not last longer than Ben-Hur, action is being taken.