{"id":433131,"date":"2023-04-12T11:42:54","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T15:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=433131"},"modified":"2023-04-12T10:44:03","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T14:44:03","slug":"shorten-games-later-beer-sales-at-mlb","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/shorten-games-later-beer-sales-at-mlb\/","title":{"rendered":"Shorten games, later beer sales at MLB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MLB decided to make the games this season quicker with the addition of the pitch clock.<\/p>\n<p>However, this also limits the time the fans in the stands can consume beer.<\/p>\n<p>To contest this, 4 teams so far &#8211; Arizona Diamondbacks, Texas Rangers, Minnesota Twins, and Milwaukee Brewers decided to sell alcohol from the beginning till the 8<sup>th<\/sup> inning this year. Miami Marlins and New York Mets still sell beer through the 7<sup>th<\/sup> inning but can change that in the near future.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">MLB games are now 30 minutes quicker than last year.<\/p>\n<p>That translates to a loss of $280,000 to $1.1 million in lost beer sales throughout the season, depending on the stadium.<\/p>\n<p>So several teams (Brewers, Twins, Diamondbacks, and Rangers) have already extended their beer sales\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joe Pompliano (@JoePompliano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoePompliano\/status\/1646147178551713795?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Baltimore Orioles have another rule \u2013 to sell the frosty beverage through the 8<sup>th<\/sup> inning or until 3 and a half hours since the beginning of the match \u2013 which happens first.<\/p>\n<p>With the new rules from Major League Baseball, the games are already down with an average of 30 minutes so far this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MLB decided to make the games this season quicker with the addition of the pitch clock. However, this also limits the time the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":433132,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17863],"news_category":[16708],"gn_keywords":[12402],"acf":{"announce":"Because of shortened matches, the beer sales continued to the 8th inning.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/433131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/433131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433131"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=433131"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=433131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}