San Diego Pitchers Alone Violated the Pitch Clock

In the 2024 MLB Opening Game, San Diego Pitchers Alone Violated the Pitch Clock Four Times

There were four pitch clock violations in the opening game of the 2024 Major League Baseball (MLB) season.

In the MLB regular season opening game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Diego Padres held at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on the 20th, San Diego's Yu Darubish, Yuki Matsui, and Wandy Peralta violated the pitch clock rule one after another.

The pitch clock is a system that strictly measures the interval between pitchers' pitches. 파워볼사이트 추천

The MLB Secretariat introduced the pitch clock last year and saw great results in shortening game time.

Last year, big league pitchers had to throw the ball within 15 seconds if there were no runners on base and 20 seconds if there were runners on base.

The referee automatically awards one ball to the pitcher who violates this rule.

This year, the pitch interval was further reduced to 18 seconds when there was a runner.

When there are no runners, the time is 15 seconds, the same as last year.

On the day that this rule was first applied in the regular league, only San Diego pitchers violated it.

This was all when there were no runners.

After the bell rang to start the game, Darubish faced the Dodgers' first batter, Mookie Betts, and failed to follow the pitch clock rule with 3 balls and 1 strike.

Betts automatically got one ball and reached base on a walk.

Japanese bullpen pitcher Matsui, who made his big league debut on this day, took the mound as San Diego's fourth pitcher and in the top of the 6th inning with no runners and one out, he gave the first batter, James Outman, a free ball for violating the pitch clock with 2 balls and 1 strike.

In the end, he gave up a walk with 3 balls and 1 strike.

Peralta had two outs in the top of the seventh inning and faced off with Freddie Freeman, but ran out the time limit on three balls and one strike.

As soon as Peralta threw the ball, the umpire ran to the catcher's side and pointed to the watch on his wrist, informing him that he had violated the pitch clock.

In the top of the 8th inning, Peralta lost one ball to leadoff leader Max Muncy due to a second pitch clock violation in a 2-ball, 2-strike game, and then gave him a walk and handed the mound over to Johnny Brito.