{"id":427557,"date":"2023-02-25T21:13:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T02:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=427557"},"modified":"2023-02-25T21:13:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T02:13:03","slug":"red-sox-braves-training-game-ends-in-tie-due-to-pitch-clock-violation","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/red-sox-braves-training-game-ends-in-tie-due-to-pitch-clock-violation\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox-Braves training game ends in tie due to pitch clock violation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday&#8217;s Grapefruit League contest between the Atlanta Braves and Boston Red Sox featured a chaotic ending that was the first of its kind in MLB history.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cal Conley doesn\u2019t get in the box with 8 seconds left on the pitch clock and gets the automatic strike.<\/p>\n<p>He strikes out with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth with 2 out. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lFpCqcXA7I\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/lFpCqcXA7I<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sportsbook Review (@SBRReview) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SBRReview\/status\/1629592331526471680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 25, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Batting with the bases loaded and a full count in the bottom of the ninth of a 6-6 game, Braves second baseman Cal Conley was assessed an automatic strike after taking too long to get set in the batter&#8217;s box.<\/p>\n<p>The call resulted in a game-ending pitch-clock violation strikeout.<\/p>\n<p>New MLB rules give pitchers 20 seconds to deliver a pitch with runners on base. But batters have just eight seconds, whether there are base runners or not, to get set.<\/p>\n<p>If pitchers do not oblige, a ball is called. If hitters don&#8217;t, it&#8217;s a strike. Since Conley was not ready, strike three was called, and the game ended in a tie after nine innings.<\/p>\n<p>While tightening the pace of play is necessary for the sport, doing so at the expense of the literal ending of the game might be just a stretch.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The umpire said I was looking down. I was looking down at the catcher as he was standing up,&#8221; Conley said afterwards. &#8220;Not really sure if the pitcher was ready to go, (but) catcher (Elih Marrero) definitely wasn&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Braves manager Brian Snitker saw it as a teachable moment for everyone as they continue getting used to the new rules.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;ve got to forget about (what the catcher&#8217;s doing), you better be attentive to the pitcher, like the rule says,&#8221; Snitker said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And that&#8217;s distracting. That&#8217;s something, heck, we might try it. &#8230; I don&#8217;t think they were intentionally trying to do it, but it worked.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Friday&#8217;s spring action featured the first use of the pitch clock, among other new rules, in a game between MLB teams.<\/p>\n<p>San Diego Padres star Manny Machado was assessed the first auto strike in big-league history during his first at-bat of the spring.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Now that we got our first look at the pitch clock, we see our first clock infraction <\/p>\n<p>Manny Machado started off his at-bat, 0-1 because he took too long to get into the box <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pUcAdyZAkx\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/pUcAdyZAkx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Talkin\u2019 Baseball (@TalkinBaseball_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TalkinBaseball_\/status\/1629217886710468613?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 24, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Last season, Major League games lasted three hours and three minutes on average, and the average length hasn&#8217;t been under three hours since 2015 (2:56). You have to go back to 1978 for the last time the average game took less than 2\u00bd hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday&#8217;s Grapefruit League contest between the Atlanta Braves and Boston Red Sox featured a chaotic ending that was the first of its kind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":427558,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17771,16909],"news_category":[16708,16715],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"New MLB rules give pitchers 20 seconds to deliver a pitch with runners on base","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/427557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/427557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427557"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=427557"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=427557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}