If spring training is any indication, MLB's umpires are going to be as strict as anyone could have imagined with the league's new pitch clock.
One day after San Diego Padres star Manny Machado became the first player to fall victim to the omnipresent countdown, Atlanta Braves minor leaguer Cal Conley showed that the umps will enforce the pitch clock in even the highest leverage situations.
On Saturday, Conley was up to bat in the bottom of the ninth inning in a tie game against the Boston Red Sox with the bases loaded, two outs and a full count, the classic all-or-nothing baseball scenario.