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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 3866025, member: 289"]
This game took 3 hours and 50 minutes:

[URL='https://sabr.org/gamesproj/game/may-1-1920-an-extreme-exercise-in-futility-braves-dodgers-play-26-innings-to-no-decision/']May 1, 1920: An extreme exercise in futility: Braves, Dodgers play 26 innings to no decision – Society for American Baseball Research (sabr.org)[/URL]

That's 8 minutes and 51 seconds an inning. Not per half inning. Per Inning.

No commercials was a factor. Also pitchers pitched to contact. Only 14 of the 156 outs were by strikeout. (I've just watched a  You-Tube clip of the 7th game of the 1960 World Series, a game in which there were NO strikeouts).

Rather than three batter rule, I'd say that a manager can change pitchers once in an inning unless there is an injury. Sometimes they seem to change pitchers just to look like they are doing something to the owner.

I wonder if we should let a foul ball be a third strike. or maybe a batter should be out if he has three swinging or called strikes or three foul balls. Or maybe foul balls should be...balls.

Us blockheads have to think outside of the box.
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