Every MLB team has survived the first day of the pitch clock era. And even with just 15 games in the books of the 2,430 that will be played this year, we know one thing: The pitch clock is making a huge difference.
The average time for all of Thursday's Opening Day games was 2 hours, 45 minutes. That's 26 minutes shorter than the average of all 2022 Opening Day games, which was 3 hours, 11 minutes. Here's the duration of every game played Thursday.
To say the pitch clock was smash success on Opening Day would be a gross understatement.