Oswaldo Cabrera's pitch clock violation partly stifled a New York Yankees rally.
Oswaldo Cabrera's costly error outside the batter's box set a somber tone to the ninth inning of the Yankees' 6-5 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals on Saturday afternoon. Cabrera had worked a 3-2 count against Cardinals closer Ryan Helsley, but umpire Ben May ruled that he was not ready for the payoff by the required eight seconds remaining on the pitch clock. A strike, the third, was called, sending Cabrera back to the dugout after a futile argument from manager Aaron Boone.
The automatic strikeout stifled a Yankee comeback that saw Giancarlo Stanton erase the bulk of a 6-1 deficit in the bottom of the eighth with a bases-clearing double. New York also missed out on a chance to gain a game on the division-lead pursuing Baltimore Orioles, who fell to the last-place Colorado Rockies in Denver later on Saturday night.
Under the polarizing pitch clock rules unveiled in time for the 2023 season, pitchers have 15 seconds between pitches with no men on. For their part, batters "must be in the box and alert to the pitcher by the 8-second mark or else be charged with an automatic strike," Cabrera finished Saturday's game 0-for-4 with two strikeouts. He was not in the starting lineup for Sunday's rubber match against St. Louis.Geoff Magliocchetti is a veteran sportswriter who contributes to a variety of sites on the "On SI" network. In addition to the Yankees/Mets, Geoff also covers the New York Knicks, New York Liberty, and New York Giants and has previously written about the New York Jets, Buffalo Bills, Staten Island Yankees, and NASCAR.
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