The Rangers and Diamondbacks combined to throw 1,490 pitches in the World Series. They did so without a single pitch timer violation.
You didn’t notice? That’s the point.
The 119th World Series was unlike any of the 118 that came before it. It was the first one in which MLB decided its champion while playing with a clock, also known as the pitch timer, also known as the greatest product innovation to a baseball game since Harry M. Stevens sold hot dogs at the Polo Grounds on a cold Opening Day in 1901 (or so the legend goes).
