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Take your time: MLB OK with longer playoff tilts

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  • Associated Press

TORONTO -- Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred says it's "not appropriate" to enforce pace-of-play rules as strictly during the postseason.

Speaking before Toronto hosted Texas in Game 2 of their AL Division Series, Manfred said he was pleased with cooperation from players during the regular season, when the average time of a nine-inning game was cut by six minutes this year to 2:56.