Major League Baseball's campaign to speed up its games in the hope of winning over more young fans has shown some signs of success in the first month of the new season.
Before the season began, Rob Manfred, MLB's new commissioner, said he wanted to reduce the amount of dead time during games without compromising the integrity of the game.
But he conceded that he was probably being overambitious in his goal of cutting the average running time of big-league games to less than three hours, or two minutes lower than in 2014.
To his pleasant surprise . . .
