Thursday night’s instant replay review certainly didn’t help the pace of play problem Major League Baseball is trying to address.
After Ichiro Suzuki was called out on a play at home plate, the Marlins issued a challenge, resulting in a five-minute and 44-second delay that resulted in the call getting changed. The four umpires stood by the third-base line, waiting to hear from the MLB offices for a ruling.
Eventually, it was found that Mets catcher Travis d’Arnaud never touched Ichiro before he reached home plate a second time after failing to touch it on his initial head-first slide in the seventh inning of the Mets’ 7-5 victory over the Marlins at Citi Field.