Saunders, who lost about 10 pounds during his brief illness, felt so sick Wednesday he returned to the team hotel before the game, only to find more frustration.
"I went back to my room, and the game wasn't even televised locally," Saunders said. "All they had on were soccer replays."
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Scioscia will hold a team meeting today to address baseball's edict that umpires step up their enforcement of pace-of-game rules.
Much of the focus will be on the 12-second rule for delivering a pitch, keeping batters in the box between pitches, and not granting timeout to a batter once a pitcher has begun his delivery. But Scioscia had one other suggestion.
"Most of the time between innings, our pitcher is waiting for a signal from the umpire to pitch," Scioscia said. "That could [cut] 10-15 seconds every half-inning.
"I know television is very important, but if the game comes on with the guy in his windup, that's OK."
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