Column: 5 takeaways from baseball\u2019s opening week, which is as good a time as any to overreact<\/a><\/p>\nSuzuki held up his hand in the direction of the field before deciding to challenge. But the umpires did not initiate a replay review because they said Suzuki took too long to make his decision.<\/p>\n
According to Major League Baseball\u2019s replay regulations, once a manager notifies an umpire that a club is considering a challenge, the umpire \u201cwill hold play until the earlier of the expiration of the 15-Second Determination Timer \u2026 or an indication from the Manager that the Club is not going to challenge the play.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen a close play happens like that, the manager is required to immediately hold, to signal to start the clock, which is 15 seconds,\u201d crew chief Chris Guccione told a pool reporter. \u201cSo once I see a manager hold by raising his hand, I\u2019ll radio up to the press box, to the tech up there, who then starts the clock. So then from that point they\u2019ve got 15 seconds to either wave it off, challenge, whatever they need to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 15 seconds is displayed on the pitch clock, and umpires wear a communication device that buzzes when the clock strikes zero.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s zeros and the buzz, and then Kurt came up just a little late,\u201d Guccione said.<\/p>\n
Suzuki said bench coach John Gibbons, who is the conduit between the manager and Angels staffers looking at the replay, said the timing of the challenge decision was close.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said it was a judgment thing,\u201d Suzuki said. \u201cHe said it was like zero-bam and then I challenged, so it was like right after. If we\u2019re late, we\u2019re late. Can\u2019t really argue that. Even if it\u2019s a half-second, a second, you can\u2019t argue that. If you\u2019re late, you\u2019re late.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Cubs went on to score four more runs in the third, including two with two outs in the inning.<\/p>\n
The Angels challenged a successful steal by Hoerner in the sixth, but the call was upheld.<\/p>\n
The time limit for deciding whether to request a replay challenge was lowered from 20 to 15 seconds when the pitch clock was instituted as part of a package of rules changes ahead of the 2023 season.<\/p>\n
The 42-year-old Suzuki took over as the team\u2019s manager in October. He spent the previous three seasons as a special assistant to Angels general manager Perry Minasian.<\/p>\n
Suzuki was a major league catcher for five teams over 16 seasons, winning a World Series with Washington in 2019. He had no major league coaching experience when he was hired as manager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A potential replay challenge by the Los Angeles Angels on Wednesday was denied because first-year manager Kurt Suzuki…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,2845,181,1334,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-252397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-headlines","10":"tag-anaheim-news","11":"tag-chicago-cubs","12":"tag-latest-headlines","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}