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Before the 2015 MLB season, new commissioner Rob Manfred made clear his intentions to speed up the game by adding new “pace of play” rules, in an effort to shorten game times. Those rules involved three major components: there would be a 2 minute and 25 second-long break between innings and pitching changes (that time would be pushed to 2 minutes and 45 seconds for nationally televised games); batters must keep one foot in the batter’s box, except after certain circumstances (swings or checked swings, foul balls, umpire-granted timeouts, wild pitches, and pitches that brush back the hitter); and managers must stay in the dugout when requesting a challenge, and a challenge must be requested within 30 seconds of the original call.