All most time!!
Can you smell the grass? Can you hear the crack of the bats? The ball hitting inside the gloves??
I can! I love the spring training and will be going to Arizona to see a few games.
This year there will be some new rules in place that will affect some early on.
There will be a timer on the pitch delivery..
“ Major League Baseball adopted its first pitch clock, limits on defensive shifts and larger bases for next season in an effort to shorten games and increase offense in a tradition-bound sport.
The pitch clock will be set at 15 seconds with no runners on base and 20 seconds with runners up from the 14/19 tested at Triple-A this season and 14/18 at lower minor league levels.
There will be a limit of two of what MLB calls disengagements—pickoff attempts or steps off the rubber—per plate appearance, and a balk would be called for a third or more unless there is an out. The disengagement limit would be reset if a runner advances.
A catcher will be required to be in the catcher’s box with nine seconds left on the clock and a hitter in the batter’s box and focused on the pitcher with eight seconds remaining. Penalties for violations will be a ball called against a pitcher and a strike called against a batter.
A batter can ask an umpire for time once per plate appearance, and after that it would be granted only at the umpire’s discretion if the request is made while in the batter’s box
New York (AP)
We will need to adjust and certain pitchers will be important to watch.
Can you smell the grass? Can you hear the crack of the bats? The ball hitting inside the gloves??
I can! I love the spring training and will be going to Arizona to see a few games.
This year there will be some new rules in place that will affect some early on.
There will be a timer on the pitch delivery..
“ Major League Baseball adopted its first pitch clock, limits on defensive shifts and larger bases for next season in an effort to shorten games and increase offense in a tradition-bound sport.
The pitch clock will be set at 15 seconds with no runners on base and 20 seconds with runners up from the 14/19 tested at Triple-A this season and 14/18 at lower minor league levels.
There will be a limit of two of what MLB calls disengagements—pickoff attempts or steps off the rubber—per plate appearance, and a balk would be called for a third or more unless there is an out. The disengagement limit would be reset if a runner advances.
A catcher will be required to be in the catcher’s box with nine seconds left on the clock and a hitter in the batter’s box and focused on the pitcher with eight seconds remaining. Penalties for violations will be a ball called against a pitcher and a strike called against a batter.
A batter can ask an umpire for time once per plate appearance, and after that it would be granted only at the umpire’s discretion if the request is made while in the batter’s box
New York (AP)
We will need to adjust and certain pitchers will be important to watch.
