20-second pitch clock scrapped for college baseball in 2016

Pitch clocks won’t be used as a tool to help speed up play in college baseball in 2016. The NCAA Baseball Rules Committee this month withdrew an experimental rules proposal that would have created a 20-second pitch clock with runners on base. A survey of 25 Division I conferences showed little support for the clock, which the Division I Baseball Committee had recommended using throughout the 2016 tournament.

The average length of nine-inning games in the College World Series increased from 2 hours, 53 minutes in 2012 to 3 hours, 19 minutes in 2015. Game lengths also increased in regionals and super regionals last year.

Major League Baseball this year installed clocks to time between-innings breaks and pitching changes.