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A. J. Pollock Jersey , Commissioner Rob Manfred said there will be a 20-second pitch clock for spring training games in Arizona and Florida this year to help players, managers and umpires garner experience should the rule be instituted for the regular season as a way of addressing pace of play in the game.Fitzpatrick noted "players rebuffed management's proposal for a pitch clock" the past two seasons, although owners will not need the players association's approval if they want to unilaterally implement one this year. This is not a new idea, as Mike Axisa of CBSSports.com noted a 20-second pitch clock was implemented in the minor leagues in 2015. Pitchers are penalized with an automatic ball added to the count when they exceed the time limit.The past couple of years have seen rules aimed at improving pace of play, such as limiting mound visits from managers and eliminating pitchers throwing actual pitches when a batter is to be intentionally walked.Earlier this month, Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic reported there was a proposal being discussed that would require pitchers to face at least three batters before being removed from a contest. That would limit the number of times managers went to the mound for pitching changes and cut into the time used for pitchers to warm up on the actual mound.Manfred has taken aim at pace of play in light of game time increasing in recent years.According to Baseball Reference, the last seven seasons are among the top eight in league history for longest average game. The 2018 season was third on that list with an average of three hours, four minutes, while the record came the prior year with games lasting an average of three hours, eight minutes. The Texas Rangers won their first game with interim manager Don Wakamatsu at the helm, and did so emphatically, trouncing the Seattle Mariners 8-3 on Friday in the opening game of Rangers’ final three-game home series.The game was called in the top of the seventh inning after an hour of torrential rain http://www.diamondbacksfanproshop.com/authentic-zack-greinke-jersey , lightning and flooding.Maybe Wakamatsu, who had been Texas’ bench coach, apparently made that much of a difference. Or perhaps the Rangers were just due after losing four straight games and 16 of their past 22. The Rangers had been shut out in their previous two games.Article continues below ...Whatever it was, Texas hopes it can bottle it and carry it along for its final nine games, beginning Saturday in the middle game of the series against the Mariners at Globe Life Park in Arlington, Texas.The Mariners will send left-hander Marco Gonzales (12-9, 4.28 ERA) to the mound to try to even the series while Texas will counter with left-hander Mike Minor (12-7, 4.14).Wakamatsu took over the Rangers’ reins when Jeff Banister was dismissed earlier Friday after four seasons and two division championships in Arlington. Banister was American League manager of the year in 2015.Wakamatsu, who managed in Seattle in 2009-10 before being fired, said before Friday’s game that he wants to be considered for the full-time managerial position.“It’s an emotional time for me,” Wakamatsu said of Banister’s dismissal and his chance to take over the job, be it for just the rest of the season or beyond. “Banny approached me this winter about coming on the staff Shelby Miller Jersey , so still trying to process a lot of that right now and just really focus on the next 10 days and see how we can finish strong.“I came back here because of Banny. I came back here because of (Texas general manager) Jon Daniels, and some of the relationships and comfort level I felt with coming back home.”Meanwhile, in the opposing dugout, the Mariners’ Felix Hernandez, who has been sidelined since Sept. 8 with a tight right hamstring, rejoined the team and played flat-ground catch on Friday.He’ll throw a bullpen session on Saturday to see whether he can manage to get in a final start this season next week at home.“One more outing, a productive outing, would be good to see,” said Seattle manager Scott Servais, whose team has fallen out of contention for a postseason berth. “He wants to pitch again, no question about it. That’s why he’s here. If that wasn’t the case, he’d probably shut it down.“He’s had a lot of innings Chris Owings Jersey , no doubt,” Servais added about Hernandez. “He just wants to feel healthy and feel good about going into the next year. But he wants to get back out there.”The 26-year-old Gonzales will make his 28th start of the 2018 season on Saturday after recording a no-decision in his most recent start, a 4-3 Mariners loss to the Angels in Anaheim on Sunday. He gave up three runs and six hits in five innings.Gonzales will be making his fourth career start against the Rangers, and he has a 2-1 record with a 5.40 ERA in the first three. Two of those starts came this season, and Gonzales went 1-1 with a 5.40 in those.Minor will make his 28th start of the season on Saturday night. He leads Texas with 12 wins and his next win will match his career high, achieved in 2013 when he was with Atlanta. He will be working on five days’ rest after taking a no-decision in the Rangers’ 7-3 loss on Sunday at San Diego. He allowed four hits and two runs over 6 1/3 innings in that game.Minor has gone 1-2, with a 4.74 ERA in seven games, four of them starts, in his career versus Seattle, including 0-1 and a 7.24 ERA in three starts this season.