MLB is giving Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani a warmup clock loophole between innings originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.
The Fox broadcast captured the weirdness of the moment.
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Shohei Ohtani was stranded on base to end the top half of the first inning for the Los Angeles Dodgers, and he had to get out to the mound to pitch.
MLB has implemented a between innings clock. That is supposed to count down, and when it gets to zero, the inning is supposed to start.
Except in the bottom of the first, that’s not what happened.
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The Los Angeles Times’ Jack Harris broke it down:
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Ohtani came to the mound with just 40 seconds on the clock.
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The clock was then reset to allow Ohtani a full warmup.
That seems like something that was probably thought about ahead of time. Fox analyst John Smoltz also noticed it in Game 4.
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It’d be interesting to know if anything like this happened for Ohtani in the regular season.
But it’s clear that in Game 7, MLB wasn’t messing around. Ohtani was going to get his warmup time. Whether that’s fair or not is up to everyone else to decide.
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