One of the greatest attractions of baseball in relation to other sports, is that its final outcome is not governed by time, and while this is a distinctive feature of this sport, perhaps the excessive duration of the games in recent times is harming this discipline.

A few decades ago the duration of baseball matches was on average between 2 and a half to 3 hours, when I sumo, but this has increased markedly in recent years, in which many games of 4 hours and more are quite common. Reasons for this can be many, for example, the prolonged breaks between innings by television advertising guidelines, the large number of changes in relay pitchers, the time between throwing and throwing beyond what is allowed in the rules, the constant outs the players of the batting box, and now, the replays of plays. Maybe there are other reasons for the delay of the baseball games, but what is a reality is that this goes against the tuning and attracting new fans of the sport.

The not-so-young and the young people of today, are made up of the millennial (generation Y) and centennial (generation Z) generations, which have, above all, the last, as a characteristic, the little patience, so a sport Like baseball, with a few lapses of duration in the excessively long recent period, it is perhaps not the most attractive option for today's youth.

In short, baseball is a very interesting sport, and because of the complexity of its rules, deep, it must adapt to the times of this era. I do not propose that they reduce the number of innings, nor the essence of the rules, since the discipline would be distorted, but something must be done so that the duration of the games, on average, is not so extensive. It seems to me that by applying common sense (many times, the meaning less commonly applied); this problem could be substantially improved. For breaks between innings, referees could accelerate them; the lapse between launch and launch will be reduced; limit the number of play reviews; draw attention to the players by the continuous exit of the batting box. Baseball, without changing its rules, can reduce playing time to the way it used to be.