NEW YORK — Houston led the most important leagues with 35 pitch clock violations and Washington’s Kyle Finnegan topped people with 11.
Violations by pitchers, batters and catchers totaled 602, down from 1,048 in 2023, the primary season of the timer. There have been 465 by pitchers, 133 by batters and 4 by catchers, down from 747, 286 and 15.
Washington was second with 31, adopted by Arizona (30), the Los Angeles Angels and Milwaukee (29 every), Pittsburgh (27), the New York Mets (26) and Atlanta and the New York Yankees (25 every).
Colorado, Kansas Metropolis and Oakland had the fewest at 10 apiece.
Finnegan was adopted by Toronto’s Chris Bassitt (eight); Texas’ John Grey, Atlanta’s Reynaldo López and the Mets’ Jose Quintana (seven every) and Cleveland’s Tyler Beede, Houston’s Framber Valdez and the Dodgers’ Yoshinobu Yamamoto (5 every).
Andy Pages of the Dodgers topped batters with 5 violations, adopted by Washington’s Ildemaro Vargas (4) and Houston’s Yordan Alvarez, Philadelphia’s Nick Castellanos, Pittsburgh’s Oneil Cruz and Cincinnati’s Santiago Espinal (three every).
Within the first 12 months of the clock, Pittsburgh led pitcher violations with 41 and Philadelphia reliever Craig Kimbrel had probably the most particular person violations with 13.
There have been additionally 34 pitcher violations of the disengagement restrict this 12 months and 5 batter timeout violations.
There have been simply two defensive shift violations, down from 26 within the first 12 months of the rule requiring two infielders to be on the infield filth, on both sides of second base. The violations have been by Minnesota shortstop Carlos Correa towards Cleveland within the sixth inning on Might 17 and by Boston shortstop Ceddanne Rafaela towards Tampa Bay within the second inning on Might 20.