[Discuss Thrower]

Originally Posted by alnorth

The odd thing was that while the first reliever was making his warmup tosses and after the pinch-hitter went to the on-deck circle, the Houston manager went out and talked to the umpires for a long time. I don't know what in the world he said to convince them to ignore the rules, but when the umpires allowed him to bring in another reliever, then the Angels manager came out and had a long argument.

So, the umpires have some kind of explanation, but I don't see what it could possibly be. Once you start making your warm-up tosses, you are in the game.

Insert long winded and overly worded Joe Torre statement that kinda sorta admits fault but does not offer any sort of definitive statement on preventing such a mishap in the future.