MLB feels effect of new rules as pitch clock violation ends Red Sox-Braves game

• Game tied after Cal Conley takes too long to get set
• New rules are meant to speed up time of games this season

Baseball's new rules designed to improve pace of play are coming fast at everyone, particularly the players.

The most dramatic moment of the new pitch clock era arrived on the first full day of spring games. Cal Conley of the Atlanta Braves thought he had won his team's game against the Boston Red Sox with a two-out, bases-loaded walk-off walk. He took a few steps toward first base with bat in hand when umpire John Libka indicated strike three. Conley wasn't set in the box as the clock wound under eight seconds. The penalty is an automatic strike.