And the Series is Over. Game Five = 3:00

Funny how when you thought the Dodgers, who were facing elimination, would pull out all of the stops, they didn't.  This was the "fastest" game of the 2018 World Series coming in at three hours.  Congratulations to the Boston Red Sox on their latest World Championship.  The Red Sox now own nine baseball championships.  They still trail the Cardinals by two World Series championships and the Yankees by 18.

The five games of this series took a total of 21 hours and 21 minutes to play 53 innings or a little over 24 minutes to play one full inning.  The average time of game was four hours and 16 minutes.  If you consider the 18 inning game as two games the length of each game averaged 3:33.

Baseball moves at a snail's pace and if the game wants to thrive it must do some soul searching if it is serious about speeding up the game.  This generation of fans will not put up with long periods of inactivity when it wants instant gratification.  MLB you can do the right thing if you really want to speed things up.