What the ..... ??

[Thunderheads]

What a mess this is ........

 

and no, I'm not referring to Cubby's navy blue ball bag

 

http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/63817564/v33080833/milatl-rules-check-review-occurs-in-the-7th

[siz]

Why wouldn't they at least let him throw while they were talking to NY like they would during a 'regular' review? 

[scrounge]

Why wouldn't they at least let him throw while they were talking to NY like they would during a 'regular' review? 

 

Without commenting on the clustermuck of the overall situation, I can see not doing that...if you let him throw during the review of how many throws he's allowed to have by rule, it kinda makes the whole thing moot

[siz]

I just think its a bad loophole that the pitcher was kind of penalized.  They should've reviewed, then given him his 8 warmups and then away we go.

[maven]

From the MIL recap:
 

So, what happened?

Well, pitching coach Rick Kranitz and bullpen coach Lee Tunnell each missed Thursday's game to attend the high school graduations of their children.

Minor League pitching coordinator Rick Tomlin was serving as pitching coach, and bullpen catcher Marcus Hanel was running things down in the bullpen.

When things began to go south for starter Matt Garza -- who gave up four runs in 6 1/3 innings -- in the bottom of the seventh, Roenicke wanted Kintzler and Smith to warm up in the bullpen, but failed to properly communicate his wishes.

"I didn't go back and tell Rick Tomlin who to get up and bring in, so it was my fault," Roenicke said. "It's just, you do things the same way every day and then when it changes, it just changes what goes on and I had to make the change."

During the inning, Roenicke sent backup catcher Martin Maldonado down to the bullpen to relay the message, rather than calling on the bullpen phone. However, Maldonado thought Roenicke wanted Duke to warm up and told him to get loose.

But neither Duke nor Smith got warmed up in time before Roenicke moved to pull Kintzler out of the game.

"No left-hander was up," Roenicke said. "Maldy told Duke to get loose because that's who Maldy thought it was going to be, but really I wanted Smith. So, when I went to home plate, I told them Smith. And that's why when Duke came in, it couldn't be Duke."

So, Smith came in to pitch without throwing any warm-up tosses in the bullpen and began throwing off the mound. That's when the umpires stopped the game again.

Crew chief Fieldin Culbreth initiated a review for record keeping and a rules check to determine how many warm-up pitches the pitcher is allowed. After the review, Smith was determined to only be allowed eight warm-up pitches.

"You get eight pitches between innings," Smith said. "That's normally how many I throw in the bullpen anyway, so it wasn't that bad."

Once the game resumed, Smith was good to go.

[jim knight]

Okay Jeff... I will bite. What are you referring to?

[Thunderheads]

Okay Jeff... I will bite. What are you referring to?

Hi Jim ...

maven's post cleared it up perfectly .....

[Jimurray]

Since it was a double switch Roenicke had to give the change to the PU first. So Smith was in the game and had to pitch. If he hadn't given the change to the PU whoever comes out of the bullpen when he signals is in the game and, of course, there could be no double switch.

[DVA7130]

Ironic that the eight pitch rule is intended to keep the game moving.

[Larry in TN]

It was quite a half-inning. Four, (I think), reviews in the game, too.

[mjr_2013]

What a mess.

 

And I AM talking about that navy ball bag.

 

You couldn't borrow someone's?? 

[Richvee]

What a mess.

 

And I AM talking about that navy ball bag.

 

You couldn't borrow someone's?? 

Why does a MLB umpire even own a navy bag?