[chapmaja]

I have a question about the "delay" call in the Michigan-UCLA game. Betsa (Michigan Pitcher) apparently was called for delay by not pitching within the allowable time.

I am not an NCAA umpire, so I don't know the NCAA rule. What is the time limit, is it the same as NFHS (batter has 10 seconds to get ready, pitcher has 20 seconds to release)?

Also, how to umpires time this. I generally don't even worry about it unless I am seeing a pattern or "slowness". I can't recall the last time I counted on a pitcher, but I have done it on batters before.

I watched the replay, and what I counter, but using the broadcast clock and a stopwatch was about 27 seconds from when the ball entered the circle until the umpire called the dead ball "ball" for the batter.