MESA, Arizona — The thing you have to remember about the pitch timer is that it’s not designed to shorten games. Saturday’s 10-8 Cubs win over the Giants took three hours and six minutes and that was about the average length of a Major League Baseball game in 2022. If you think that was supposed to change for games like this — well, it most likely did. There were 26 hits, 13 walks, a couple of hit batters, a whole bunch of errors and a game that actually flew along, if you think about it.
Cubs 10, Giants 8: Time has come today
