Red Sox-Braves spring training game ends in tie due to pitch clock violation

Spring training games ending successful ties are not uncommon because managers don't want to usage up pitchers successful other innings successful February. But history was made successful Saturday's Grapefruit League necktie betwixt nan Boston Red Sox and Atlanta Braves.

It's each ballplayer's dream (maybe not successful outpouring training, but you get it): bases loaded, 2 outs, afloat count, necktie game. However, nan Braves' Cal Conley struck retired without moreover seeing a transportation connected a 3-2 count to extremity nan game.

How? 

He wasn't group successful nan batter's container successful time.

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A position of nan scoreboard astatine CoolToday Park anterior to a Grapefruit League property convention Feb. 16, 2020, successful North Port, Fla. (Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos via Getty Images)

New MLB rules springiness pitchers 20 seconds to present a transportation pinch runners connected base. But batters person conscionable 8 seconds, whether location are guidelines runners aliases not, to get set. If pitchers do not oblige, a shot is called. If hitters don't, it's a strike. Since Conley was not ready, onslaught 3 was called, and nan crippled ended successful a necktie aft 9 innings. 

While tightening nan gait of play is basal for nan sport, doing truthful astatine nan disbursal of nan literal ending of nan crippled mightiness beryllium conscionable a stretch.

Manny Machado became nan first unfortunate of nan transportation timepiece rules Friday. He was not group successful clip and instantly fell into an 0-1 hole.

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

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The changes travel aft trial drives successful nan insignificant leagues, wherever MLB says games person been shortened by an mean of 26 minutes.

Two games were played Friday betwixt MLB teams. The crippled betwixt nan San Diego Padres and nan Seattle Mariners took 2 hours and 29 minutes, while nan crippled betwixt nan Texas Rangers and nan Kansas City Royals took 2 hours and 33 minutes.

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

It's a sample size considering it is early successful spring training. And 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 a quicker gait to games, it's disconnected to a basking start, and nan sample size from nan minors is surely rather large.

MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred speaks during nan Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremonial astatine Clark Sports Center July 24, 2022, successful Cooperstown, N.Y. (Jim McIsaac/Getty Images)

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Last season, Major League games lasted 3 hours and 3 minutes connected average, 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 2½ hours.