pitchers sometimes when the ball was being thrown back from the catcher.

I was concerned that I would have to keep the clock as I am the scoreboard operator here at UT. My boss told me the SEC has some technology that allows the umpires to keep the clock. I’ll find out more this weekend with the mechanics of it all. I’ll be curious if it’s the home plate ump, but I’m guessing it will be one of the base umpires. Home plate already has balls and strikes so I would hope they wouldn’t put that on them as well.

But it looks like wind up started.

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I was concerned that EL was going to start getting calls especially when the crowd started counting down the clock. I started watching the difference in when the clock started and there was a pretty big difference at times, as much as 3 or 4 seconds and that would be an issue some places....fsu for instance.

Baseball. Found a link to softball changes this year. See above. Sorry

The time between pitches is 20 seconds. The time begins when the pitcher receives the ball or the umpire calls, “Play ball.” The pitcher must begin their windup before the time expires or a ball will be awarded to the batter. Batters still must be within the batter’s box within 10 seconds of the pitcher receiving the ball or the umpire calling, “Play ball.” If the batter is not within the batter’s box within 10 seconds, a strike will be assessed to the batter. *Note – This is not a change, but is included to help clarify the responsibilities of the batter during the 20 seconds

In fact, we were playing at the University of South Carolina and they had a pitch clock in the outfield that I assume is supposed to be reset by someone in the booth, but you could tell they weren't paying attention 90% of the time so they'd start it at random times.so it didn't mean anything. On the fields that don't have a pitch clock I'm assuming the home plate ump is somehow keeping track, but I don't really see them using a stopwatch or anything. The purpose is to speed up the game so I guess it's ok if they're not following the rule exactly since it doesn't really benefit either team.