MLB's new pitch clock is moving games 22 minutes faster and ending some of the most infuriating parts of watching baseball

• Major League Baseball is adding a pitch clock this year in an effort to speed up games.
• Just a few days into spring training, the results have been impressive.

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Major League Baseball has enacted the use of a pitch clock, with the goal of speeding up the pace of play through each team's 162-game marathon regular season.

With the average game lasting longer than three hours last season, the pitch clock should come as a welcome change, though it will take some getting used to in the early days.

The basics: The clock is set to 30 seconds between batters, 15 seconds between pitches when the bases are empty, or 20 seconds between pitches when runners are on. If the pitcher does not begin their motion before the clock hits zero, it's an automatic ball to the batter. On the batter's side, if they are not set in the box by the time the clock reaches eight seconds remaining, they are tagged for an automatic strike.

Ideally, the new rule will do away with the constant hemming and hawing of some at-bats, with multiple calls for time, the re-tightening of batting gloves, and all the other small aspects of baseball that might come across as gamesmanship to experts but performative time-wasting to casual fans.

The process has already changed spring training for the better.

Last week, Padres third baseman Manny Machado became the first batter dinged for an auto-strike after failing to get set in time.

While it might look a bit ticky-tack when called, players are adjusting accordingly, and as they do, the results are impressive.

Take a look at how fast an inning can go by compared to the old ways.

Obviously it's not exactly a one-to-one comparison — a spring training outing versus a late-inning situation in the playoffs — but still, 111 seconds of baseball should include more than one pitch.

There are still a few rough spots to work through. When a spring training game between the Atlanta Braves and Boston Red Sox ended with a walk-off tie after a player was called out on an auto-strike three, some fans were concerned.

Looking forward, it's easy to imagine how strange and cruel it would be to see a meaningful game decided in such a fashion, but at the same time, a hotly debated holding call just finished the Super Bowl, and the world was able to move on in relative peace.

With 162 games worth of regular season to adjust, Major Leaguers will be more than ready to handle the stresses of the pitch clock come playoff time.

Some pitchers already have gotten the hang of things. Perpetual Cy Young contender and three-time winner Max Scherzer seems thrilled with the new pace of play.

Meanwhile, Phillies ace Zack Wheeler is less enthused about the new rule.

While players might be split, the results speak for itself.

Come the regular season, the fallout of the pitch clock will likely become more clear, and rather quickly.

Maybe in less than three hours.