NC State is eliminated on a pitch clock violation, a breakdown

Elimination game between Auburn and NC State. This breakdown is brought to you by Shady Rays. Now Auburn scored eight runs in the first inning. We're in the eighth inning here. It's 17 to 13. NC State's clawing their way back and this is called a fair ball and the batter is out and everyone's a little perplexed. They don't like it. Takes his helmet off. Coach comes out. He's like what's going on? He's looking around. The umpires are going to get together like what did you see? What did I see? What did you see? Manager. Is it coach or manager in college? He's out. He's like oh and he's going to ask him. He's like what? He's like well it's a fair ball. He's like um the ball hit him in the foot. He's like oh so what are you guys talking about? My god. Oh this is. Don't need this. This man is head coach Elliott Avent and he is a legend and this is his last game before retiring. He served as head coach for 30 seasons. The longest tenure in program history. He's got 1,103 wins at NC State. 1,327 total all-time program record. He led the Wolfpack to the NCAA tournament in 22 of his 29 seasons. 40 all-americans under his watch. 137 players drafted. Holy smokes. It's his last game and he wants to go out with a bang. He doesn't want to go out arguing calls. Unfortunately he's wrong. That is a fair ball. From the other angle it looked like it might have hit him. I think the player has to know it didn't hit him. It just hits the front of the plate and goes into fair territory. So they got that call correct. Although they were mad about it and it lingered. Now we go to the bottom of the ninth. Two outs away from the season ending. Strike one. Fouled back. Ball. The 1-1. Strike two. Gets him chasing. The 1-2. Bam. Calls him out on strike three. He doesn't like that call. No one likes that call on NC State's side. They're saying that's low. That's down. And right there. I kind of always look at the batter's eyes. His eyes are looking kind of straight ahead. So maybe that's when it's in front of him. Is that at knee level? Is it a little low? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Nobody knows it's hard. ------- awful. Coach Avent doesn't like it. Number six doesn't like it. He tosses his gum. Now they're down to their last out. He's just mm-mm. That's a shame. That's a shame. One out away from season being over. From career being over. Strike one. Swing and strike two. Fouls it back. Stays alive. Next pitch. That's a ball outside. Next pitch. That's a ball low. Next pitch. It's a ball outside. We've worked the count full. Let's keep this game going. All right. Pitcher's going to think about it. He's going to step to the back of the mound. He's going to clear his cleats. Clear his mind. The batter gets ready. Touches the bat. Steps into the plate. Catcher says, hey, hey, blue, blue, blue, blue. He's taking too long. Taking too long. Blue says, damn it. You're right. Pitch clock violation on the batter. Strike three. Game's over. Why'd you make me make that call, huh? Batter can't believe it. He's looking around perplexed. Elliott's mad. What are you doing? ------- horse ----. You blew the, you blew the ******* call at home plate. You blew the ******* strike call and now you *******, you gotta, you gotta, how do you call that? That's horse ----. That's ******* horse ----. You'll never get another world series game. ------- horse ----. That's ******* horse ----, Travis. And before he has to be cordial, he's just going to toss the hat because he's angry. And then pretty funny. He has to just go and dap up the other coaches who I'm sure have known him a long time and they revere him maybe. And he's just going to get hugs and say, okay, great job. Great season. Great career. Great life. Love sharing the field with you. Just happy and smiles and big hugs and cordialness, which is a funny juxtaposition. How mad he was about all the plays earlier. Man. Okay. There's a big hug in the dugout and some more hugs in the dugout and the batter, he's still perplexed. What happened? What happened? Well, I'll tell you what happened. Here's the pitch clock. You got to be engaged with the pitcher and ready to go by eight seconds or more. So you can see in green top left, first pitch of that bat, he was engaged and ready to go at 18 seconds on the clock. And then top right, he's engaged and ready at 16 seconds. And then another pitch, bottom left, engaged and ready at 14 seconds. And then the next one, top of middle, he's engaged already at 12 seconds and we keep going. And now we've got another one, bottom middle, nine seconds, cutting it close. Bottom right cuts it really close because he is engaged by eight seconds. Then on the camera and in the very middle of frame is the pitching question where he is just, it's egregious. I mean, what are you doing, kid? There's rules. The umpire doesn't want to call these ticky tack calls. There's rules. The catcher calls you out on it. You got to abide. We're at seven seconds here. You haven't even looked up. It's the biggest pitch. It's the season ending pitch. Where's your head at? Where's your head at? Here's the replay again, just solo. And he gets got probably by the pitcher taking so long because the pitcher had kind of worked fast. And then all of a sudden the pitcher works slow on this one. And yeah, I mean, by the time this strikes eight. So here he has to be engaged and ready to hit with the pitcher. You may not like the rule, but them's the rules and everyone's got to do it. So it's a tough way to lose. But I really, I think, I think if the catcher doesn't notice it, the ump gives them some leniency because it is a big moment. But once the other team is like yell blue, it's like, this breakdown was brought to you by shady. Ray summer is coming. Protect your eyes. Look good while doing it. They're giving you 50% off 50% off two or more polarized sunglasses. 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