That was 57 years ago when the average game time for a nine-inning match was two hours and thirty-four minutes. “If they’d take some life out of the ball and give us a normal strike zone, they’d have faster games. With the strike zone dwindling the way it has, the pitcher has to be very careful. You can feel the difference by squeezing them.”And 27 years ago, when Fay Vincent was the commissioner of MLB, he proclaimed, “The umps lowered the strike zone on their own. “I want them to call a higher strike zone.

Source: Forbes February 28, 2019 15:22 UTC