Baseball’s new timing device made its big league debut Friday during a limited schedule of spring training openers and it was Mannie Machado, not a pitcher, who was called for the first violation.
Baseball’s new timing device made its big league debut Friday during a limited schedule of spring training openers and wouldn’t you know it, it was Machado, the San Diego Padres’ All-Star slugger, not a pitcher, who was called for the first violation.
Machado, who batted between fellow superstars Xander Bogaerts and Juan Soto, laughed about it afterward. Padres manager Bob Melvin said he walked over to MLB officials Morgan Sword and Mike Hill afterward and said: “If this is going to be the pace of these games, I’m OK with it.” Batters must be in the box and alert to the pitcher with at least 8 seconds on the clock. Batters can call time once per plate appearance, stopping the countdown.
“You got 30 seconds and you got to be ready by eight. Forget about walk-up songs for real," he added with a laugh. “It’s going to be interesting. I always tap the umpire for respect. Those things will start going out of the way.” "It’s going to be an interesting year. It’s going to be fun. Who knows where this leads? There’s going to be a lot of strategy that goes into this.”
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