what is the average duration of a Major League 9 inning baseball game?
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The MLB average last year(05) was 2:48 minutes
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The longest game in the major leagues, ever was 8 hours and 6 minutes between the Chicago White Sox and Milwaukee Brewers (who were an American League team at the time).  The game lasted 25 innings, and the Sox took it 7-6.  The date was May 5, 1984.\n\nMore MLB records, including longest doubleheaders, etc, can be found here:\nhttp://www.baseball-almanac.com/recbooks/rb_gmlg.shtml
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my best answer would be 6:  first 3 guys up all get singles, to load the bases with no outs, next guy gets a single, but the runner on 3rd is called out for interfering while baserunning.  then this happens 2 more times and the inning is over.  6 base hits, no runs, inning over.  tough question though.
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haha i have tickets to that game but im a stros fan\n\n\nand baseball is played out??? at least baseball's playoffs dont take 3 months...
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Well, they are usually 2 and a half hours long, but the actual game time is way less than that. They have commercials and when calls are made, time isn't taken off the clock, such as fouls. I think the actual time for all 4 quarters is 48 minutes, 12 each. But in halftime, it takes a while too, so it all adds up to around 2 and a half hours long. And foul shots don't take time off the clock either.
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An earned run is any run that the opponent scores except for runs scored as a result of errors.\n\nERA is calculated with this formula:\n\n(Earned Runs / Innings Pitched) * 9\n\nSo if a pitcher has allowed 22 earned runs in 93 innings, he has an ERA of (22 / 93) * 9 = 2.13
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many many many differences in the two, yet many similarities. The playing stratigies are different also. \n\nActually the game of baseball really originated from a game which was played more like softball! The balls were similar to the 16" softball game played today.\n\nAlso, a seven inning softball game goes a lot quicker than a seven inning baseball game! I have called a seven inning BB game which laste 4 hours, and also a seven inning SB game in 50 minutes!. Love 'em both though!
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I think it was this game from July 2, 1963\n\nIn a game we will never again see the likes of, Juan Marichal of the San Francisco Giants and Warren Spahn of the Milwaukee Braves battled for nearly 16 complete innings before the Giants won, 1-0, on a Willie Mays home run. \nBy Sal Maiorana\nCBS SportsLine Historian \nSAN FRANCISCO (July 2, 1963) - It couldn't have happened in this day and age of pitch counts, set up men trying to accumulate holds - what's a hold? - and closers fattening up their save totals just for protecting a three-run lead in the ninth inning. \n\nIf any manager today pulled what Alvin Dark of the San Francisco Giants and Bobby Bragan of the Milwaukee Braves did on this chilly midsummer evening at Candlestick Park, they would probably be committed to an institution, or at the very least, be named in a grievance by players' union leader Donald Fehr. \n\nJuan Marichal of the Giants and Warren Spahn of the Braves each threw complete games which would be enough to stop the presses in these pitching-poor 1990s. However, this game went 16 innings, and nary a reliever even stirred in the bullpen. Marichal endured the full 16 innings and the 42-year-old Spahn lasted a medically miraculous 15 1/3 before he gave up Willie Mays' solo home run in the bottom of the 16th that ended the epic, never-to-be-matched pitching duel. \n\n"I was a little tired, but my arm wasn't stiff or sore," said Spahn, who faced 55 batters, walked only one - and that was intentional - allowed nine hits, struck out two, and served up 201 pitches. "I wasn't throwing as hard at the end, but I still felt strong. \n\n"You know, once you get past the ninth inning, it's sudden death. You're not looking forward at all, just taking each hitter as he comes and thinking only about the present." \n\nMARICHAL, 17 YEARS SPAHN'S JUNIOR, also faced 55 batters, walked four, struck out 10, gave up eight hits, and delivered a mind-boggling 227 pitches. \n\n"In extra innings, you go out and say you're gonna pitch one more inning so you throw as hard as you can," said Marichal, who was five years old when Spahn began his major league career in 1942 with the Boston Braves. "I said that three or four times and kept throwing hard. I didn't get very tired." \n\nDark could only marvel at his young pitcher, Marichal, who more than earned his ninth consecutive victory of the season and 13th overall. \n\n"Marichal never at any time appeared to be laboring," Dark said. "He didn't throw many breaking pitches, thus tiring his arm out. He just kept slipping across the fastball with a loose, fluid motion. He got stronger." \n\nHe also got a strong dose of inspiration from his opponent. \n\nDark said he considered taking Marichal out in the ninth, but the pitcher didn't want to exit, saying that if the old man on the other side could keep going, so could he. \n\nDuring the first eight innings, Spahn pitched a better game. In the second, Orlando Cepeda singled, stole second and eventually reached third before being stranded. And in the seventh, San Francisco put runners on first and second, but Spahn again wriggled out of danger. \n\nSpahn was always a master of averting disaster. And he did it with that seemingly bionic left arm as well as a cerebrally superior approach to pitching. \n\n"SPAHN IS THE GREATEST PITCHER I have ever seen, bar none," said one-time Braves pitching coach Whitlow Wyatt. "I have seen others who had more stuff, but none had his savvy and his knack of setting up hitters. He knows how to pitch, he pitches to weaknesses." \n\nIn the fourth, Marichal got into a jam when, with two outs, Norm Larker walked and Mack Jones singled. Del Crandall then followed with a single up the middle that sent Larker scurrying home, but he never made it as Mays' throw gunned him down at the plate. \n\nIn the top of the seventh, Crandall o
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Major League Baseball has a 162 game regular season.  Yes, that's such a marathon season.  The preseason is roughly 30 games or so.  \n\nWith that long of a season, it's incredible that Cal Ripken, Jr. played so many consecutive games (somewhere around 2300 in a row).  Considering the guy barely had a day off between March and the end of September each year, he was definitely dedicated to his work.  In an era of inflated salaries and concern of over-use injuries, few players even make it through one season without missing a game.
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Each individual match is 90 minutes long with two 45 minute halves. After each half the refferre will add minutes back on for stoppage time. Which on average is usually 2 or 3 minutes. The World Cup, however, will continue throughout the whole month of June until the final is played in early July.
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it depends on the stadium, that is if u are talking about mlb.  the infield is 60.5 from the pitchers mound to home plate, and 90 feet between bases.
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Greetings from the Yahoo Brain in New York City!  \nHope you're watching the live Answers webcast at http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/asktheplanet/brain.html !\n\n\nIf you're asking about the rule, then the answer is unlimited.  As long as the batter keeps hitting foul balls and they are not bunt attempts, it can last forever.\n\nIf you're asking about the all-time record, then as several answerers  have mentioned, that sort of statistic is not kept officially.\n\nHope this helps!\n--J.
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it takes anywhere from 1 1/2 to 5 hours. it depends on the speed of the game, and also the pitcher. mark buhrle finished a game in 1 1/2 hours once, and that is extremely fast. there is no time limit.
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The longest professional baseball game ever played was a 33-inning minor league baseball affair between the Rochester Red Wings and the Pawtucket Red Sox that took place on April 18, 1981, at McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The two teams played deep into the frigid night with no end in sight. The game began just after 8:00 PM local time and continued until 4:07 AM the next morning, when it was paused after 32 innings. (The umpire's rule book was missing the revision that placed a curfew on game length.) On June 23, 65 days later, play resumed. The game was decided after just 18 more minutes as Pawtucket's Dave Koza singled off of Rochester's Cliff Speck to drive in Marty Barrett as the winning run, giving the PawSox a 3-2 victory. The official length of the game is listed as 8:25, also a record.\n\nIn 1996, Steven Krasner, a sports writer who covers baseball for the Providence Journal, published a children's book about the historic game called The Longest Game.\n\nESPN's SportsCenter did a piece about the game on July 25, 2005 during its 50 States in 50 Days segment for Rhode Island.
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You take the number of earned runs and divide by the number of innings pitched. Then multiply by 9.\n\nYou multiply by 9 because an ERA is the average number of earned runs a pitcher gives up per full game.
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Soccer games have 2 periods of time.  Each period has 45 minutes.  The numbers in parantheses mean the time.
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Baseball is played for nine innings.  Each inning has a top and a bottom, the home team always batting in the bottom.  If, at the end of the top of the ninth the home team is winning, the game is over.  All they can do is add to their lead, so there is no need to continue the game.  The home team won.  If, however, there is a tie at the end of the ninth, extra innings will be played.  The game will not end until a team has a better score at the end of any given inning.  These rules have never been any different to my knowledge.