After HP Umpire Angel Hernandez called Yankees batter Gleyber Torres out on strikes in the 1st inning vs Toronto, New York manager Aaron Boone argued the strikeout shouldn't count because Blue Jays pitcher Bowden Francis stepped off the rubber during his delivery, causing Torres to back out of the box. Wanna know what happened? Article: www.closecalls...
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TLDR; I have a pitch clock violation on the pitcher. Automatic ball.
First, the pitch location issue - notwithstanding the disengagement issue, location-wise this pitch was a strike and correctly officiated as such. The reason is Torres never enters his crouch as the pitch approaches home plate and his standing stance thus raises the strike zone top. The on-screen graphics are, again, incorrect.
Second, the disengagement issue. This is where Angel needs help from his crew, namely 1B Umpire Nic Lentz and 3B Umpire and Crew Chief Lance Barksdale. These umpires can see the pitcher's pivot foot slipping off the rubber the best. But during the umpire conference, they don't do anything about the actual strike three call. Official Baseball Rules 5.07(a) and 6.02(a)(5) amongst others discuss illegal pitches, including the quick pitch, known as a pitch that is made before the batter is reasonably set in the batter's box.
Except this batter WAS already reasonably set. Instead, it is an interrupted delivery and should have been called a dead ball when it happened. One wild card factor involved? The pitch clock. The timer had reached three seconds when the pitcher stumbled off the pitcher's plate, meaning he rushed his way back to re-engaging quickly in order to beat the expiration of the timer.
So instead of simply washing this out as a "start over from scratch" resolution, the proper call here most likely would be a pitch clock violation on the pitcher.
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