The new pitch timer in Major League Baseball has spawned some positives this season, but there are still some in the game who aren’t fans of it.
Add Blake Snell to that list.
The San Diego Padres left-hander allowed a home run Wednesday to Pete Alonso, who leads the majors with six homers.
Snell says it could have been prevented. Not necessarily with a better pitch, but maybe without the pitch timer or PitchCom.
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Blake Snell of the San Diego Padres reacts after giving up an RBI single during the sixth inning against the New York Mets at Citi Field on April 12, 2023, in the Flushing borough of the borough of Queens in New York City. . (Sarah Stier/Getty Images)
Snell was behind 2-0 in the count and wanted to throw a slider. He is one of the few pitchers in the game to call his own pitches with the device instead of the traditional way catchers call pitches.
But when Snell tried to hit the slide button, he kept hitting the fastball button.
Blake Snell of the San Diego Padres throws during the first inning against the New York Mets at Citi Field on April 12, 2023, in the Flushing neighborhood of the borough of Queens in New York City. (Sarah Stier/Getty Images)
If a pitcher does not start moving within 15 seconds with no one on base, the pitcher is a charged ball. Unable to figure out the situation with the pitch timer ticking down, Snell fired only one pitch.
«But I threw him up the middle, where he homered. It was really frustrating,» Snell said after the game.
Alonso took it deep into the left-center field seats to give the New York Mets a 3-2 lead that they didn’t relinquish.
Pete Alonso of the New York Mets reacts after hitting a solo home run during the fifth inning against the San Diego Padres at Citi Field on April 12, 2023, in the Flushing borough of the Queens borough of the city of NY. (Sarah Stier/Getty Images)
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Between innings, the 2018 AL Cy Young Award winner showed his PitchCom device to a camera and appeared to say it was «terrible.»
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The Mets won the game, 5-2, taking two of three against the team that knocked them out of the postseason in the wild-card round last season.