The average time of a nine-inning game in the League Championship Series rose 12 minutes to three hours and 16 minutes this year.

The increase came along with a bump in scoring as well.

However, the overall postseason game time has fallen by two minutes to 3:00 in the second year of the pitch clock.

The LCS average was 3:40 in 2021, then fell to 3:26 in the first season of the PitchCom electronic pitch-calling device and 3:04 last year when the pitch clock was instituted.

Runs per game in the LCS averaged 11.3, up from 8.8 in 2023 and 7.9 in 2022 and 9.9 in 2021.