 Braves are beating the Padres by three. This is the final out of the top of the ninth inning. Two minutes and five seconds will be put on the clock to run to commercial to warm up. There's Kenley Jansen. He's gonna come in for the save. So we go to commercial and here's the rule. MLB is instituted times of two minutes and five seconds for local broadcasts. As of 2018, the umpire signal for the final warm up pitch comes at the 25 second mark and the pitcher must throw it before the clock hits 20. The batter is also announced at the 22nd mark and the pitcher must begin his wind, begin his wind up to throw the first pitch of the inning with the five seconds before the clock hits zero. Now in between innings from this blimp shot, you can zoom in and see the umpire is on the mound with Kenley checking his fingers for sticky stuff. Now with the closers, they do that before the inning starts because it's pointless to do it after the inning because the game is over. All right, so now he gets checked for sticky stuff. He throws his warm up, throws a fastball there and the umpire says you get one more. He says, no, I want two more. And he says, no, you only get one more. He says, no, I'm gonna throw two more. And he says, no, no, no, no, no, no, you're done. You're done. I can't do anything. Turns to the catcher. He says, no, I'm gonna throw two more. This one's gonna be a curve ball. So there you go. And I'm guessing he wants to end his warmups on a fastball. So he wanted two more. That's his routine. Umpire says, no, steps in front of Kenley. He's like, nah, I can't let you throw this. Kenley is looking at the, what the fuck is that? What's going on? What is that? Dude, that's not cool. So he's gonna walk up and have a chat with him. Umpire's name is Bill Miller and you can see him say, Bill, come on, man. Totally uncool. Now the umpire, he turns to him and he says, you have five minutes and you threw your first pitch with 40 seconds. And I don't know why, I think five minutes is an exaggeration because he knows the rules, he's got two minutes. Kenley's gonna respond to him and he's gonna say, but Bill, you never called time. And now Snit comes, okay, okay, Bill. Hey Bill, that's not what matters there. Whenever a closer comes in, enough. And his point is like the pace of play, we got to the ninth inning, the closers in. You can't rush the closers, very important part of the job, very important inning. And that's kind of his first point. And the umpire's gonna respond and he's gonna say, I know, but and Kenley's gonna say, you can't do that. That's my routine. I'm just doing whatever it is you guys tell me. No way, no way. But you guys stopped him too. Something like, I know you guys gotta check his fingers. I know, I know, but he's gotta be able to pitch. Check him after the game. And umpire says, it's not us, this is not my rule. I don't know. So it's a pretty valid point. Kenley's like, hey, hey, Manny, Manny, get behind the plate. Now the umpire says, we're not doing it. We're not doing it. We're not doing it. Don't you throw a pitch. Pretty fair point by Kenley. Like if you gotta check my fingers on the mound before I throw my warmups, then you have to grant me more time when I throw my warmups. Seems pretty logical and fair. Like call time out on the two minute clock and let that run out if you're interrupting my routine. So he writes down in his little note, did my job today and forced a rule that I don't like. Let's him know that that counts as a mound visit. Does it affect Kenley in the inning? Well, the first pitch, there's the fastball he wanted. Nice curve, that warmup pitch. One, one, that darts inside, two and one, that darts in again, gives him the call. That was off the plate. Nice job, made up for it. Now he's got the two, two to Machado, high fastball. Boom, you're out. Cronen worth up, outside fastball. Calm down, says catch. In play, Danzby's got it, gathers it, throws two outs. Next batter's Luke Voight, that's up and in for a ball and the one, oh, is fouled back. One, one, put in play, high, Danzby comes all the way across, catches it, let Olsen know. I got those two, I got those two. So after the game, Kenley's gonna go have a little chat with Bill Miller, the umpire and he's gonna wanna like, you know, I only threw three pitches and you see the ump say right there, you threw three pitches and I think maybe the ump wasn't paying attention, he didn't know fully what was going on because Kenley's saying like, I gotta be able to throw more than three pitches, you know? And the ump is asking me, he's like, yeah, I was trying to throw a fourth pitch, fourth pitch, stop me. And you can see him put his hand on his shoulder and you see the umpire say, okay, I hear you. I hear you big man. And then I think that's good. I don't know, umpire's just trying to force a rule that he doesn't make, but the rule is dumb and there should definitely be an adjustment period. If you get checked on the mound, then that should encounter the time against you warming up. And that's just common sense.