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How long does a game of baseball last? A surprising range of answers on google. Or is it as long as it needs?

As you may have guessed I know nothing about baseball and am pondering whether to watch an evening or matinee performance.

Most MLB games will be around two or three hours, I think. As it's nine innings plus extra innings in case of a draw, there's no set time. There have been playoff games of four hours or more. If one of the pitchers is on a tear, allowing very few hits or pitching a shutout or a perfect game, it can be much shorter.

Here are the extremes:

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/recbooks/rb_gmlg.shtml