Philosophers have been arguing about the nature of time since...well, since philosophy was a thing, since the first person caught a reflection of themselves in a running stream and pondered the nature of the self. The self is tied to time: whether one’s view of it is linear or circular (or flatly circular), ending or unending; at some point the self will be located within some conception of time. Cut to you making a third cup of coffee in the work kitchen, willing time to go a little faster.
Aristotle said time is not change, time is the measure of change, and thus baseball—and the competing theories of what baseball is—can easily be laid over these theories of time.