Warm-up Pitches

[tcannizzo]

Originally Posted by blueump

game face?

Sorry, I missed that in the rule book. I thought umpires were to enforce rules not make them.

You are right, umpires are to enforce rules, which is what I wrote, and what I believe I am doing.

There are many situations that cause umpires to reduce the number of warm-up pitches that a pitcher may have, all in the spirit of enforcing this rule.

This is clearly a ritual for many of the pitchers who use this product, and it equates to more than one-minute between innings.