Good morning and welcome to episode 557 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from baseball

perspective presented by the play index at baseballreference.com. I am Ben Lindbergh of

Grantland.com joined by Sam Miller of baseball perspective. Hello. Howdy. How are you?

Okay. Can we do a quick play index? Yeah, we should do a quick play index. Good. I

have one. It's a quick one. Yesterday, yesterday on Tuesday, Tuesday on Tuesday,

yesterday on Wednesday, which is Tuesday, the Royals play a game that took two

hours and 53 minutes or something like that, two hours and 55 maybe. And I commented on

this when it was happening. It seemed like a pretty big deal to me that there was a

postseason game that finished in under three hours. And I have not looked. But how? I think

it was the second one this this October, this postseason. I was going to ask you to guess.

Oh, okay. Well, I knew the answer. So let's see here. I just for fun then, because I

game length minutes, I'm going to set 180 or fewer. I guess I'll say to 170, 9 or fewer.

Postseason games. Let's just do 2014. All right. We have that is the second one. You're right.

That, okay. So that is true. So let's try. What was the first one? Because I don't remember.

I'll tell you in a second. Well, I've changed the now. I've changed the 2013. How many do you

think there were in 2013? I'll say three. There were eight. Wow. So let's keep doing this. Let's

do a few years. Pick a year. All right. Let's go back to 2008. 2008. How many are you going to guess?

10. Say 11. Oh, five. Only five. Okay. So 2013 looks like maybe it wasn't outlier. Pick another

year. 2003. All right. 2003. There were 10. Okay. Let's do 1991. Okay. You want to guess? Sure.

1991. I'll say, well, there were fewer games. We were supposed to do games. Yeah. So there were

only two series plus a world series. So there were only like 20 games or 18 or whatever.

And games were shorter back then. So that balances that out somewhat. I'll say seven.

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