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Originally Posted by rudel.dietrich

Baseball should implement a rule that a strike be charged to a hitter who call a very late timeout. When pitching trying to alter or stop your motion in a hurry is a good way to injure yourself and it happened on two notable occasions when I played highschool and college ball.

There's really no such thing as a hitter who calls a late timeout. Like PP said, it's the umpire who calls late timeouts. Any competent umpire will simply ignore a late timeout request from a hitter. The umpire in this Beckett/Angels situation f'ed up by granting the timeout when he did.