Umpire grants batter time in the middle of pitchers delivery, a breakdown

Bottom eighth Archie Bradley just got the first out his team is down by one run He's trying to hold him right there gets a new ball He likes that one more looks up at the batter's box and sees Juan Soto and smiles a little and says, okay Here he comes. This will be fun. The first pitch is gonna go right down the middle with some off-speed and that's fouled down The left field side and Juan Soto is gonna take a lap. He's gonna Sniff the bat cuz that's some burnt wood that smells good Now this is the classic tale of a pitcher trying to go up tempo and speed it up and throw the pitch as fast as He can and stay in his rhythm nice inside fastball there He's going outside inside Juan Soto looks at him and the batter trying to slow things down and he's trying to be in control Both want to be in control of the tempo of the at-bat So Juan steps in he looks at Archie Bradley and he's ready to go almost immediately goes outside fastball catcher likes it Soto says I'm gonna take another stroll. I'm gonna sniff my bat again That burnt wood Archie Bradley's like, come on, dude. Come on, dude. Come on, dude step in the box So it was like that's my time Well, just you just wait on me Bradley waits patiently gets the sign from real Murdo. They're gonna bust him in time Soto calls time. Do you need time? Probably not I just trying to mess with Archie because that's what you know pitching and hitting is a lot of the time just messing up timing So Bradley looks in they're staying with the same pitch inside fastball and He misses up top he misses high that's a ball Soto's gonna take another stroll just another reminder you're on my time Bradley's waiting patiently waiting patiently Getting jittery Romero calls for the curveball Soto calls time um grants it curveball right down the middle and Bradley's like what are you talking about? Come on, my legs going down My legs already going down Girardi doesn't like it This shouldn't be done if you don't watch a lot of baseball while you watch the breakdowns It's definitely something batters do to try and mess with pitchers because they want to get in their head It's mind games and they want it to be on their time The ump should not have granted this because Bradley's in his windup now a lot of times the um say we got a granite What if the batter has something in his eye? Then it can be truly dangerous if he's you know unable to get out of the way of a pitch because there's something in his eye like that would be the The real spirit of it But a lot of times it's just a mess around and look the umpire like Archie Bradley The umps just starting to raise his hand He's just starting to raise his hands and Archie Bradley isn't leg is coming down when he finally sees That it's called time. So he follows through with it because that's the flip side. It's dangerous if a pitcher was to try and Stop throwing that ball and stop all the momentum. So it's actually good that Archie Bradley followed through. It's a nice curve Maybe one Soto wanted that curve. Maybe you wanted the off speed, but he does say, you know My legs going down and the umpire doesn't care and Joe Girardi's mad and he Okay Do they stay with the curveball? Because now Soto saw that that's what they were going to throw in this count the 2-2 count They pivot is they let's go outside fastball and maybe that's a little off the plate But maybe Archie Bradley deserves a call a little off the plate after the kind of nonsense time call or maybe that's dotted Perfectly in the ump's opinion and your opinion, maybe even my opinion I don't know but I love this little inside battle between the batter and the pitcher and also this this matchup here the umpire We're talking about that's Jim Wolfe and this pitcher that's Archie Bradley and guess what? They've both been on the same podcast and guess what? It's a podcast on the John boy media network It's called the Chris Rose rotation. Go check it out