NC State is eliminated on a pitch clock violation, a breakdown

State's clawing their way back and this

is called a fair ball and the batter is

out and everyone's a little perplexed.

They don't like it. Takes his helmet

off. Coach comes out. He's like, "What's

going on?" He's looking around. the

umpires are going to get together like

did what did you see? What did I see?

What did you see? Manager is a coach or

manager in college. He's out. He's like

oh. And he's going to ask him. He's like

what? He's like well it's a fair ball.

He's like um uh the ball hit him in the

foot. He's like so what are you guys

talking about? My god. Oh this is don't

need this. This man is head coach Elliot

Avent and he is a legend and this is his

last game before retiring. He served as

head coach for 30 seasons, the longest

tenure in program history. He's got 1,13

wins at NC State, 1,327

total all-time program record. He led

the Wolfpack to the NCA tournament in 22

of his 29 seasons. 40 All-Americans

under his watch. 137 players drafted.

Holy smokes. It's his last game and he

wants to go out with a bang. He doesn't

want to go out arguing calls.

Unfortunately, he's wrong. That is a

fair ball. From the other angle, it

looked like it might have hit him. I

think the player has to know it didn't

hit him. It just hits the front of the

plate and goes into fair territory. So

they got that call correct, although

they were mad about it and it lingered.

Now we go to the bottom of the ninth.

Two outs away from the season ending.

Strike one fouled back. Ball the 1-1.

Strike two. Gets him chasing THE ONE,

TWO. BAM. CALLS him out on strike three.

He doesn't like that call. No one likes

that call on NC State side. They're

saying that's low. That's down. And

right

there, I kind of always look at the

batter's eyes. His eyes are looking kind

of straight ahead. So maybe that's when

it's in front of him. Is that at knee

level? Is it a little low?

I don't know. I don't know. I don't

know. Nobody knows it's hard. [ __ ]

awful. Coach A doesn't like it. Number

six doesn't like it. He tosses his gum.

Now they're down to their last out. He's

just m

Oh, it's a shame. That's a shame. One

out away from season being over. From

career being over. Strike one. Swing and

strike. Two. Fouls it back. Stays alive.

Next pitch, that's a ball outside. Next

pitch, that's a ball low. Next pitch,

it's a ball outside. We've worked the

count full. Let's keep this game going.

All right, pitcher's going to think

about it. He's going to step to the back

of the mound. He's going to clear his

cleats, clear his mind. The batter gets

ready, touches the bat, steps into the

plate. Catcher says, "Hey, hey, blue,

blue, blue, blue. He's taking too long.

Taking long." Blue says, "Damn it,

you're right. Pitch clock violation on

the batter. That's strike three. Game's

over."

Why'd you make me make that call? Huh?

Batter can't believe it. He's looking

around perplexed. Uh Elliot's mad. What?

What are YOU DOING? [ __ ] HORSE [ __ ]

You blew the You blew the [ __ ] call

at home plate. You blew the [ __ ]

strike call and now you [ __ ] YOU GOTA

YOU GOT YOU GOT to How do you call that?

That's horhit. That's [ __ ] horseshit.

You'll never get another World Series

game. [ __ ] horseshit. That's [ __ ]

horseshit, Travis. And before he has to

be cordial, he's just gonna toss the hat

because he's angry. And then pretty

funny, he has to just go and dap up the

other coaches who I'm sure have known

him a long time. And they rever him

maybe. And he's just going to get hugs

and say, "Okay, great job, great season,

great career, great life.

Love sharing the field with you." just

happy and smiles and big hugs and

cordialness,

which is a funny juxosition. How mad he

was about all the plays earlier, man.

Okay, there's a big hug in the dugout

and some more hugs in the dugout. And

the batter, he's still perplexed. What

happened? What happened? Well, I'll tell

you what happened. Here's the pitch

clock. You got to be engaged with the

pitcher and ready to go by 8 seconds or

more. So you can see in green top left,

first pitch of that bat, he was engaged

and ready to go at 18 seconds on the

clock. And then top right, he's engaged

already at 16 seconds. And then another

pitch, bottom left, engaged already at

14 seconds. And then the next one, top

of middle, he's engaged already at 12

seconds. And we keep going. And now

we've got another one. Bottom middle, 9

seconds, cutting it close. Bottom right

cuts it really close. We can see he's

engaged by 8 seconds. And over the

camera and in the very middle of frame

is the pitch in question where he is

just it's egregious. I mean, what are

you doing, kid? There's rules. The

umpire doesn't want to call these ticky

tac calls. There's rules. The catcher

calls you out on it. You got to abide.

We're at 7 seconds here. You haven't

even looked up. It's the biggest pitch.

It's the season ending pitch. Where's

your head at? Where's your head at?

Here's the replay again. Just solo. And

he gets got probably by the pitcher

taking so long cuz the pitcher had kind

of worked fast and then all a sudden the

pitcher worked slow on this one. And

yeah, I mean by the time this strikes

eight. So here he has to be engaged and

ready to hit with a pitcher. You may not

like the rule, but them's the rules and

everyone's got to do it. So, it's a

tough way to lose, but I really I think

I think if the catcher doesn't notice

it, the um gives them some leniency cuz

it is a big moment. But once the other

team is like, "Yo, blue," it's like,

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