Baseball management is intrigued with the idea of using pitch clocks to speed play in the major leagues. Adopting rules requiring hitters to keep at least one foot in the batter's box and to put up clocks timing between-innings breaks led to the average time of a nine-inning game dropping to 2 hours, 53 minutes so far this season. ''We decided that we would undertake a rather modest set of changes this year,'' Commissioner Rob Manfred said Tuesday during a meeting with the Baseball Writers' Association of America. More...