Baseball committee to experiment with 20 second pitch clock, could be used in 2016 if approved

[CajunDreDog]

The SEC rule has been that the clock was not on if any runners were on base, and was only used when the bases were empty.

[Duggie35]

I am pretty sure this is already a rule in the

SEC

This rule has been in effect for several years now in all of college baseball with no runners on base. However, the SEC has been the only conference with an actual clock visible to everyone. The third base umpire has been responsible for keeping the time (stopwatch) for all other games and conferences.

I can tell you that UL's pitchers have rarely had a problem pitching within these time limits.

[Boomer]

There are limits to timeouts. Coaches are only allowed to make 3 visits to the mound during a regulation game. More than one in an inning to the same pitcher requires a pitching change and each visit after the aloted 3 requires a pitching change. So if a team has unlimited pitching, I guess you could say there is an unlimited number of time outs. But I am not aware of any team that has unlimited pitching.

Other than this, it is the umpires discretion as whether a time out is granted or not. Players can only "request" time.

----Duggie --I played at Jesuit HS under coach Kevin Trower and how many times I heard about "Requesting" a TO!!!