Baseball's brand new Contreras Rule for pitch clock violations made an appearance in Philadelphia when Diamondbacks batter Josh Rojas tried to cause Phillies pitcher Craig Kimbrel to violate by coming set when Rojas wasn't alert in the batter's box. Report: https://www.closecallsports.com/2023/05/pitch-clock-chaos-introducing-contreras.html HP Umpire Junior Valentine wound up warning both Kimbrel and Rojas for their respective pitch timer violations during the 10th inning at-bat (Kimbrel for actually coming set too soon and violating the Scherzer Rule and Rojas for trying to induce a violation from Kimbrel by intentionally delaying his hitting stance or 'alertness' in the box...which is a violation of the new Contreras Rule). The Contreras rule is named for Willson Contreras on the Cardinals, who successfully induced three violations of Red Sox pitcher Kenley Jansen in Boston by simply straddling the batter's box and delaying his readiness, so as to cause Jansen to violate the Scherzer rule by coming set too soon. Rojas tried it too, but must have not known or forgotten that MLB sent a memo to teams in the wake of the Contreras-Jansen incident that batters will now be warned and then assessed a strike on subsequent violations if they engage (or look at) the pitcher with one OR both feet in the batter's box, and then look away/down and try to appeal to the umpire that the pitcher has violated the Scherzer rule about coming set when the batter is not alert. Both teams' managers came onto the field to argue with the umpire crew during this same Rojas plate appearance in the 10th. Bryce Harper also gets burned for violating the pitch timer rules because he requested "Time" twice during the same plate appearance (batters only get one "Time" out per at-bat), having requested one before even coming to the plate to begin with, and then requesting a second one to appeal that Arizona's pitcher violated the Scherzer rule by coming set when he wasn't yet alert...except that the pitcher was in hybrid position and thus considered to be pitching out of Windup Position, which is exempt from Scherzer Rule, as that rule only applies to Set Position. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CloseCallSports Twitter: https://twitter.com/CloseCallSports Discord: https://discord.gg/eFXWr7yHWM