re: Why do Red Sox Yankees games seem to drag on more so than other games

ESPN has nothing to do with this.

AL games are generally longer than NL games, especially when the Red Sox are playing.

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Throwing 322 pitches takes a long time. For example, during Game 2 of the ALCS, Boston's Clay Buchholz took two minutes to throw a single pitch. Two minutes! Mark Buehrle could throw three innings in that span.

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Much of the blame for these lengthy games goes to the Red Sox, who grind out at-bats until the starter reaches his pitch limit or simply falls asleep on the mound. But it's not just them. The Athletics and Tigers played a 1-0 game in their division series that lasted nearly three and a half hours. Sonny Gray's mustache had almost filled out by the time that game ended.

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This length-of-game trend is reflective of the growing number of strikeouts in Major League Baseball, hitters working the count and constantly stepping in and out of the box. More strikeouts equals more pitches, which equals more times stepping out of the box to fiddle with batting gloves, which equals longer games, which equals more people changing the channel to HGTV for "House Hunters International."

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