doubled into the gap<\/a> in left-center, and Miguel Amaya used a headfirst slide to score the first run of the game.<\/p>\nShortstop Zach Neto’s throw beat Amaya to the plate. It was unclear if Amaya’s left hand touched home, and if it got in there ahead of catcher Travis d’Arnaud’s tag. Umpire David Rackley ruled Amaya was safe.<\/p>\n
Suzuki held up his hand in the direction of the field before deciding to challenge. But the umpires did not initiate a replay review because they said Suzuki took too long to make his decision.<\/p>\n
According to Major League Baseball’s replay regulations, once a manager notifies an umpire that a club is considering a challenge, the umpire \u201cwill hold play until the earlier of the expiration of the 15-Second Determination Timer … or an indication from the Manager that the Club is not going to challenge the play.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen a close play happens like that, the manager is required to immediately hold, to signal to start the clock, which is 15 seconds,\u201d crew chief Chris Guccione told a pool reporter. \u201cSo once I see a manager hold by raising his hand, I’ll radio up to the press box, to the tech up there, who then starts the clock. So then from that point they’ve got 15 seconds to either wave it off, challenge, whatever they need to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 15 seconds is displayed on the pitch clock, and umpires wear a communication device that buzzes when the clock strikes zero.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere’s zeros and the buzz, and then Kurt came up just a little late,\u201d Guccione said.<\/p>\n
Suzuki said bench coach John Gibbons, who is the conduit between the manager and Angels staffers looking at the replay, said the timing of the challenge decision was close.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said it was a judgment thing,\u201d Suzuki said. \u201cHe said it was like zero-bam and then I challenged, so it was like right after. If we\u2019re late, we\u2019re late. Can\u2019t really argue that. Even if it\u2019s a half-second, a second, you can\u2019t argue that. If you\u2019re late, you\u2019re late.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Cubs went on to score four more runs in the third, including two with two outs in the inning.<\/p>\n
The Angels challenged a successful steal by Hoerner in the sixth, but the call was upheld.<\/p>\n
The 42-year-old Suzuki took over as the team’s manager in October. He spent the previous three seasons as a special assistant to Angels general manager Perry Minasian.<\/p>\n
Suzuki was a major league catcher for five teams over 16 seasons, winning a World Series with Washington in 2019. He had no major league coaching experience when he was hired as manager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 A potential replay challenge by the Los Angeles Angels on Wednesday was denied because first-year…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2390],"tags":[291,83991,5,83993,83992,51833,44345,1165,446,3223,774,56,3224,3222,728,4,33,9501,11479,9496,39138,15187,1846],"class_list":{"0":"post-657664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-angels","8":"tag-angels","9":"tag-angels-suzuki-cubs-replay-challenge-denied","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-chris-guccione","12":"tag-david-rackley","13":"tag-john-gibbons","14":"tag-kurt-suzuki","15":"tag-la","16":"tag-la-angels","17":"tag-laangels","18":"tag-los-angeles","19":"tag-los-angeles-angels","20":"tag-losangeles","21":"tag-losangelesangels","22":"tag-miguel-amaya","23":"tag-mlb","24":"tag-nico-hoerner","25":"tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","26":"tag-perry-minasian","27":"tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","28":"tag-product-40776-ap-california-sports-only","29":"tag-product-40784-ap-illinois-sports-only","30":"tag-travis-darnaud"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}