Buckle up for this one, baseball fans.
Because this might be the weirdest pitch clock violation you’ll see in 2023.
Rougned Odor was up to bat with Jeff Hoffman on the mound for the Philadelphia Phillies in extra innings on Sunday. The San Diego Padres hitter took strike one. Then? Phillies infielder Edmundo Sosa went to grab some garbage that had fallen on the field. Hoffman was off the mound but quickly got back as the pitch clock was ticking down.
No one called time … but Odor thought the garbage retrieval may have counted as a time out? But nope, he wasn’t ready when he was supposed to be and he got a strike called on him:
Rougned Odor got a pitch clock violation because he thought time was called after Edmundo Sosa went to go pick up a piece of trash pic.twitter.com/odTWr4Gh01
— Jomboy Media (@JomboyMedia) July 17, 2023
Good morning to everyone except Rougned Odor https://t.co/UugsFI6ytd
— Nick Piccone (@_piccone) July 17, 2023
Should that have been called?