Baseball is popular in the USA and played with 9 players on each team, and a game must have 2 teams.
I've never been a big fan of baseball, it takes a long time for a game to develop.  I do enjoy going to the park with friends and drinking beer during the game, though.
Plus there is no clock so they must play 9 innings regardless of time.
Yep, and they can go into extra innings for HOURS
Extra innings
Extra innings is the extension of a baseball or softball game in order to break a tie.
Ordinarily, a baseball game consists of nine innings (in softball and high school baseball games there are typically seven innings; in Little League Baseball, six), each of which is divided into halves: the visiting team bats first, after which the home team takes its turn at bat. However, if the score remains tied at the end of the regulation number of complete innings, the rules provide that
2011 Conference USA Baseball Tournament
The 2011 Conference USA Baseball Tournament was held at Trustmark Park in Pearl, Mississippi from May 25 through May 29, 2011. The winner received Conference USA's automatic bid to the 2011 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. The tournament consists of eight teams split into two four-team pods, with the teams with the best record in each pod going on to a single-game final.
Regular season results.
- SMU, Tulsa, and UTEP do not field baseball teams. Marshall