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.
The 2015 Major League Baseball season is less than a week old, but there are signs that changes designed to increase the pace of play in the league are having an effect. In the 35 nine-inning games played through last night, the average length of a MLB game has been 2 hours, 52 minutes, according to Michael Teevan, spokesperson for Major League Baseball. In the comparable period from 2014, there were 33 nine-inning games that averaged 3 hours, 1 minute â 9 minutes more than so far this year. For the entire 2014 season, the average length of games was just one minute more than the opening stretch at 3:02. The pace of the game has slowed dramatically over the years. In 1981, the average length of games was 2:33.