Willson Contreras uses pitch clock to his advantage against Kenley Jansen, a breakdown

got a two Run game in the ninth inning

Red Sox and Cardinals and Contreras

steps in there's a runner on first it

was a four pitch walk to get the runner

on First and the first pitch from Kenley

is a strike strike one now Kenley Jansen

was one of the slowest pitchers in

baseball last year in the last couple

years and someone who they thought the

pitch clock was really going to affect

so he had to change his delivery to

change his motion probably changes

mindset and uh Contreras is going to

take advantage of that because now he's

like all right I want to pitch fast and

Contreras puts one foot out of the box

and then starts getting ready and doing

his gloves and all that and the rule is

that you can't throw a pitch until the

batter and pitcher look at each other

and both are ready to play and if you

want want to complain about that you can

but it seems very fair to me like hey

let's make sure both guys are ready

that's probably going to get us the best

result on the field and I agree but

kenley's just looking at his eyes and

his Bat and not his feet and Contreras

knows this so he starts his delivery but

Contreras foot is still outside of the

box so the Umpire

says hey hey hey hey hey hey and he just

gives him a warning he says you got to

make eye contact you got to look at him

look at him he's got to be ready and

Kenny's like okay what I was he he I

thought he was ready all right and then

Contreras keeps his foot outside of the

box but he's looking at Kenley making

eye contact and his Bat is in the

hitting position so when Kenley is

looking up he's just focusing on the top

half of his body and he's seeing that

he's ready he's not looking at his feet

and he's starting his wind up and the

umpire's like no now it's a violation

that's a bong Kenny's like what

wait what I thought he was ready he

turns to his infielders and they must be

like nah dude and he's like yeah okay

all right so it's one in one count and

Contreras is trying to do it again but

you can see they're waiting him out the

hump's not ready the catcher's looking

at him kenley's kind of waiting for him

and then he steps in and then the

catcher says all right here we go and

they play so contraris doesn't do it

that time but he got him to do it twice

one a warning won an automatic ball and

there's ball two and

they stole second base Goldie with

wheels because that run if you're the

Red Sox really doesn't matter it's not

going to tie the game just get the outs

when you can and here's the 2-1 pitch

Contreras doesn't do it he puts it in

his back pocket he's like I'll save that

again for later yep that's what I'm

saving it for that was ball three just

one more and I'm on base so he puts his

feet right outside he does it again and

Kenley does it again that's his motion

right there see that knee come up and

he's not ready on the umpires like dude

again that's a walk and Contreras knows

exactly what he was doing kenley's like

what I don't what's i i my problem was I

was too slow now I'm going too fast

I don't understand what's happening and

the Umpire writes it down in his little

book and he says really weird situation

Kenley doesn't know the Raw goes explain

it to him but that wouldn't be the end

of this game and the shenanigans that

ensued two batters later that two strike

98 down the middle fastball is put to

the right field wall and that Runner who

doesn't really matter because it's not a

tie game scores and it is a three to two

game with the tying run now at third

base and the go ahead run at second base

then they intentionally walk the next

batter they say get on your way to first

base man easy does it because they want

the force out they want to be able to

turn the double play and end the game

and on the 1-0 pitch they get the double

play ball one out at two game over no

game tied because the ball

Got Away now I don't think the throw is

going to beat the runner anyway but oh

we're happy here we're happy here he's

watching the Jumbotron hoping they show

the replay like what happened here they

get the one out and then oh just Spike

that throw now he was gonna be safe

anyway you can see that foot come down

before the glove really comes up to

scoop it but the errant throw

allows the tying run to score and this

guy's like oh this guy's got

his kid on it slap and he's like oh

you take him honey I gotta stand up and

yell Kiki's like whoa okay I mean I

didn't I didn't think you were gonna

pass off your kid just to yell at me I

mean I'm sorry I'm upset as well the

next batter is large new bar and he's

gonna do the same thing but I think not

on purpose because he's not looking at

Kenley right here but his feet aren't

ready but if Kenley looks up it looks

like his hands are ready or kenley's

just in his own world and he just wants

to go the umpire's gonna step out and

you can see the batter's eyes like face

kind of go wait what what's going on I

didn't mean to trick him but that is the

fourth time he's been called for this

the first he got a warning three balls

in a row and now core is gonna walk out

he's like what the hell is this what's

going on in the Umpire

he's gonna explain to him like I told

him he's not waiting for the batter to

be in his hitting position I

I can explain to you it further they're

tricking him but I don't know if that's

my place as an Umpire and kenley's like

uh uh I'll get it I don't

I don't get it now he did say after the

game Kenley was like there you learn a

lot I just learned something to be aware

of that I wasn't sure to be aware of and

Contreras after the game was like yeah

very much that was something I was doing

on purpose to mess with his timing

that's what I gotta do to help the team

win pretty cool he doesn't fall for it

the rest of the way he gets the last out

of the Inning on that funky play uh and

not great base running but it doesn't

matter the damage was done they shut him

down and that was a new pitch clock

gamesmanship that I didn't know was

gonna take place but is pretty fun I

enjoy players who try to find all the

ways they can to win games between the

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