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Chicago White Sox manager Will Venable made a costly mistake Friday night, forgetting a crucial MLB mound-visit rule during an 8-2 loss to the Cleveland Guardians.

The problem came in the first inning after starting pitcher Noah Schultz had already received a visit from pitching coach Zach Bove. With the bases loaded, Venable later went to the mound to discuss an appeal play, not realizing that another visit to the same pitcher in the inning would force Schultz out of the game.

Schultz was removed after facing just five batters, leaving Chicago’s already tired bullpen with an enormous workload. David Sandlin, who had only recently been called up from Triple-A, was forced into action before he was fully warmed up.

Venable accepted responsibility afterward, saying, “Yeah, just an inexcusable mistake by me where we had an appeal play that we wanted to execute, and, in the urgency of trying to make that happen, just totally lost that we had visited.” He added, “Obviously, that was a mistake. So, just messed it up.”

Sandlin responded calmly: “I got a little extra time out there. I think I got about eight pitches in the 'pen and then got to warm up out there. Can't make any excuses. Just have to get going. Felt good enough and started off great.”

Despite the bizarre situation, Sandlin delivered 5⅓ innings on 96 pitches.

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00:00Out comes Will Venable and what's going on here? Nobody's working up in the pen. He already came out. The
00:06pitching coach did. Right. The trainer didn't follow him. No. And that's what the first base umpire Andy Fletcher, the
00:12crew chief, he's telling Will Venable, you come out, you've got to take him out of the game. Right. There
00:18was some non-communication here, at least, in the White Sox dugout.
00:25Unless the first time did the trainer come out and we didn't see it? I just saw one guy run
00:30out. This was the pitching coach earlier. Yeah. After a double hit. Zach Bove, who went out. Unless they thought
00:35it didn't count because it was an injury. So they're not going to force Will Venable to make a move.
00:41That's interesting. Because they intercepted him before he went to the mound. Stephen Vogt's going to say, wait a minute.
00:46He's got a gripe here, too. Andy Fletcher. And now they're warming somebody up in the pen, too, just in
00:50case, because they understand what we know.
00:52Chicago's made a second visit to the mound. The pitcher must pitch to this batter and then the pitcher must
00:58be removed. Interesting. He must pitch to the batter? I don't understand why he has to pitch to this batter,
01:04though. The bat at bat hasn't started yet. And that's maybe what Stephen Vogt's getting clarification. Evidently, that's the rule.
01:13This is only given time. Not that it would matter, anyway, because he'd have time to warm up on the
01:16field.
01:17But this is a nightmare for Chicago. Yes, it is. They went through last night. You're exactly right. It's not
01:22an injury, so he would only get his eight warm-up pitches. So this actually is helping them out.
01:27But I think getting clarification in this particular case is probably a little bit more paramount. And that may be
01:31when Stephen Vogt is asking, hey, are we sure this is the...
01:35To my understanding, the pitcher immediately had to come out. Now the crew chief, Andy Fletcher, has gone to Will
01:40Venable. I have a feeling he's maybe telling him he's not going to pitch to Reese Hoskins.
01:44Reese is going to go to the dugout, and that's going to be it for Noah Schultz.
01:48Didn't see that happening on my scorecard this early.
01:52Five batters into the game, and Noah Schultz is done. And not because of an injury.
01:57Correction. The White Sox came out to two different hitters. Therefore, the pitcher must be removed in the same inning.
02:04Therefore, the pitcher must be removed.
02:05There you go. That's what I thought.
02:06Out is Noah Schultz. We'll tell you about the new pitcher who just got called up today when we come
02:12back.
02:12We'll tell you about the new pitcher.
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