Baseball has long touted that it's a game without a clock. There will always be nine innings played, no matter how long it takes. But is the main differentiating factor of baseball becoming its primary obstacle to attracting fans?
Sports Illustrated's Tom Verducci looked at the numbers and found that in recent years, baseball has come to a snail-like pace due to the ever-increasing usage of relief pitchers.
In this year's World Series where the Braves beat the Astros in six games, there were a total of 54 innings with just two lead changes.