Padres' Manny Machado becomes first victim of MLB's new pitch clock

In his first astatine bat of 2023, Manny Machado was down 0-1 earlier he moreover saw a pitch.

That's because location sheet umpire Ryan Blakney ruled that nan San Diego Padres slugger was not group successful nan batter's container successful time.

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Manny Machado of nan San Diego Padres bats against nan Los Angeles Angels during a outpouring training crippled astatine Peoria Stadium successful Peoria, Arizona, connected March 23, 2022. (Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

Facing Seattle Mariners pitcher Robbie Ray, Machado did not bring his near ft wrong nan batter's container successful nan 8 seconds he's allowed. Blakney called time, signaled to his wrist for a timepiece violation, and announced that nan count was now 0-1.

While successful nan windup, pitchers will now person 15 seconds to present a transportation (20 seconds pinch a runner connected base) — but batters person conscionable 8 seconds to get set. A batter who violates nan timepiece will beryllium charged pinch a strike, while pitchers who do truthful will beryllium fixed a ball.

Machado admitted that it's going to return immoderate getting utilized to.

"I'm gonna person to make a large adjustment. I mightiness beryllium 0-1 down a batch this year," he said. "It's ace fast. There's decidedly an accommodation it's gonna be."

San Diego Padres 3rd baseman Manny Machado hangs his caput aft being called retired connected strikes successful nan sixth inning of a crippled against nan Los Angeles Dodgers astatine Dodger Stadium successful Los Angeles connected Aug. 5, 2022. (Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports)

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The changes travel aft trial drives successful Minor League Baseball, wherever MLB says games person been shortened by an mean of 26 minutes.

Two games were played connected Friday betwixt MLB teams (the Boston Red Sox had a scrimmage against Northeastern University). The crippled betwixt nan Padres and nan Mariners took 2 hours and 29 minutes, while nan different crippled betwixt nan Texas Rangers and nan Kansas City Royals took 2 hours and 33 minutes.

Of course, that is simply a minuscule sample size, and considering it is early successful outpouring training, plentifulness of insignificant leaguers, who are well-accustomed to nan faster pace, are playing. So possibly it isn't nan champion indicator. But if shot wants to get backmost to nan gait of nan aged days, it's disconnected to a basking start, and nan sample size from nan minors is surely rather large.

Manny Machado of nan San Diego Padres takes batting believe astatine nan Peoria Sports Complex successful Peoria, Arizona, connected Feb. 16, 2023. (Matt Thomas/San Diego Padres/Getty Images)

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Last season, nan mean nine-inning crippled lasted 3 hours and 3 minutes, and nan mean magnitude hasn't been nether 3 hours since 2015 (2:56). You person to spell backmost to 1978 for nan past clip nan mean crippled took little than 2 and a half hours.