How a new MLB rule could change baseball games this season
![Home plate umpire Jim Wolf waits as the pitch clock counts down during the first inning of a spring training baseball game between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Los Angeles Dodgers Saturday in Phoenix.](https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2023/02/27/ap23057819581580_wide-31ed07b53fcf5d11fc1184a7c920bb58edb5747c.jpg?s=600)
A pitch clock will give pitchers 20 seconds or less to throw the ball, and hitters have to be in the batter's box when the timer hits 8 seconds. It already cost one team a game in spring training.
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