Five MLB Teams Relax Beer Sales Rules in Response to Shorter Games

Baseball has no blanket league-wide alcohol sales policy.

The pitch clock has had a revolutionary effect on baseball game lengths, chopping nearly a half-hour off average times of games and putting MLB on course for its fastest-paced season in four decades.

It has also led teams to change longstanding policies surrounding beer sales, as games now end approximately in the same place past games may have met their seventh-inning beer sales limits.

The Diamondbacks, Brewers, Royals, Twins and Rangers will now sell alcohol through the eighth innings of home games, according to the Associated Press.

Per the report, the Marlins and Mets will still stop their sales after the seventh inning but aren't ruling out potential changes

“If it turns out that this is causing an issue or we feel that it might cause an issue, then we’ll revert to what we have done previously,” Milwaukee president of operations Rick Schlesinger told MLB.com of his team's revised policy.

MLB has no league-wide alcohol sales policy governing how long beer can be sold, although the seventh inning is the traditional cutoff point.