Home plate umpire Vic Carapazza gestures to restart the pitch timer following a timeout from batter Tyler Soderstrom, of the Sacramento Athletics, while catcher Liam Hicks, of the Miami Marlins, calls the next pitch.

A Plate Appearance Continues

After a disruption in a plate appearance— and by that, we mean something like a timeout, mound visit, pitch timer violation, etc.— then the plate appearance will resume in the same state that it was in before the disruption, with the same count, number of outs, and so forth.

The pitch timer, though, will start over. When there is no one on base, the pitch timer counts down from 15 seconds. The batter must be in the batter’s box and ready to swing with at least 8 seconds left on the clock. If not, the umpire calls an automatic strike. Similarly, the pitcher must start their pitching motion before the clock runs out.