PITTSBURGH • Cardinals manager Mike Matheny didn’t wait long to issue his first challenge of the season Sunday. With one out in the Pittsburgh Pirates’ first inning, home-plate umpire Jerry Layne ruled that Andrew McCutchen had been nicked by a pitch. Matheny disagreed.
It took the umpires only 1 minute 25 seconds to have the call confirmed from the replay center in New York and McCutchen had first base. Ordinarly, the Cardinals would have lost their future challenges but Joe Torre, a Major League Baseball vice president, said that because the Cardinals' replay equipment wasn't working as well as the Pirates, they would not lose the challenge and all further challenges would be handled like umpires' reviews are handled from the seventh inning on.