Twins @ Brewers, batter not given time

[SanDiegoSteve]

I saw in a recent Padres game where the Padres batter raised his hand toward the umpire to request Time while the pitcher was in the set looking back runners, and the umpire cheerfully said, "No." The batter took the pitch for a ball.

This must be a new directive, as we used to see umpires giving in to such requests, even though the rules specifically instruct the umpires to not grant Time once the pitcher has started his windup or come set. I guess they are going to enforce 6.02 (b) Comment finally.

[eagle_12]

another thing i noticed was that the batter was digging in asking for time, you can see Runge's head bobbing up and down like he's saying something, could be get in the box, hurry up, let's go, etc. and then Harris wiggles the bat a couple of times and wants to step out. To long to get set IMO esp. since it wasn't the first pitch of the at bat. I could see it if he didn't dig in right but it wasn't the first pitch.