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Automatic ball?
Topic Started: Aug 16 2006, 09:00 PM (158 Views)
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What the heck is an "automatic ball"? Not an "intentional ball". I'm following the Yanks-Orioles game on mlb gameday, and in the bottom of the 8th, the 3rd pitch to Bobby Abreu was listed as an "automatic ball". What izzit?
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I've never heard that before must have been a type or something
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Why have a batter's box if we're going to let hitters march around between pitches as if they're in the Rose Bowl Parade? We'd allow a hitter to step out once per at-bat to regroup -- but that's it. Other than that, the hitter has to keep one foot in the box for the entire at-bat, or it's an automatic strike. And if both feet are in, the pitcher had better be ready to pitch, or it's an automatic ball.


http://espn.go.com/mlb/columns/stark_jayson/1503508.html



iono, just googled it
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warriors fan,Aug 16 2006
09:08 PM

That's not official though is it?
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I didn't see anything on that page about it
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Here I found it...
http://cmdr-scott.blogspot.com/2003/10/mlb...-of-change.html

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The rulebook says pitchers have to throw a pitch within X seconds, or an automatic ball is called. The blitzkrieg approach would have attacked that obvious rule-based time-user. But that would have undermined the pitcher in pitcher-batter balance, already in this era skewed (compared to historical averages) against the pitcher. Aldreson's take?



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I've seen it say that on gameday too.
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Cool, I never knew that.

By the way PK, nice avatar... :lol:
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I remembered it after I found it. It is a rule that rarely gets called. It is supposed to speed the game up I think.
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So it's just really up to the ump to decide if a pitcher is taking too long.....and the pitcher doesn't have to throw the ball at all and the ump can just say "automatic ball, slow poke?"

Interesting.
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kyyankgrrl,Aug 16 2006
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So it's just really up to the ump to decide if a pitcher is taking too long.....and the pitcher doesn't have to throw the ball at all and the ump can just say "automatic ball, slow poke?"

Interesting.

I don't know how it works? It doesn't really make sense. You always see the pitcher hold the ball until the batter steps out to see if they are going to bunt with a runner on base but they don't get called then.
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I saw that too and wondered what it meant. Thanks for the info.
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I'm pretty sure that once the pitcher steps onto the mound, they have 12 seconds to throw the ball. I know it's 12 seconds because a Blue Jay pitcher got yelled at by an umpire earlier this season. He was taking like 11.5 seconds, and the 2nd base umpire whipped out his stop-watch and told him to speed it up.
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