Major League Baseball history was made on Saturday when the Colorado Rockies beat the Washington Nationals with the first walk-off pitch clock violation. The violation forced the winning run to cross the plate on the automatic ball at Coors Field in Denver to give the Rockies an 8-7 victory. I wasn’t,” Finnegan told reporters. To lose the game in that way, it just can’t happen.”Home plate umpire Hunter Wendelstedt calls a pitch time clock violation. According to the MLB, it was the fourth pitch-clock violation with bases loaded but the first which had led to a walk-off.

Source: CNN June 23, 2024 15:57 UTC