the Mets Reuben Tajada & the Dodgers Chase Utley
I have watched it a couple of times. It does not look like a dirty play to me. You are supposed to break up a double play. It did not even look like a hard hit and certainly not leading with his spikes.
I think the broken leg was a bit just bad luck.
Should have been for the entire post-season.
the Mets Reuben Tajada & the Dodgers Chase Utley
Utley had no business sliding into Tejada like he did. He was already forced out but he purposely slid away from the base so that he could take out Tejada.
He’s gonna appeal.
Wussification of professional sports continues.
I remember when Ron Arest(AKA Metta World Peace) hit a player with his elbow while celebrating a play, the media called it a dirty play and he was suspended and trashed in the media..I did NOT consider that a dirty play that was an accident, but this, I saw it last night and it looked pretty intentional to me..good thing Im an Angels fan :-)
A FAIR punishment it to suspend Utley until Ruben is recovered enough to play ball again.
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LOL- so they suspend him the two games being played in NY and now Utley won’t play in front of the Citifield crowd. Sounds like they did him a favor more than suspended him...BS
Does anyone have a sensible explanation why, after they saw Tejada didn’t touch second base, they decided to call Utley safe at second base even though Utley seemed to go out of the basepath to take out Tejada AND Utley never touched second base? The explanation given to the TV commentators relayed to the listening audience didn’t make any sense to me.
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For perspective, many historical plays to break up double plays look as bad or worse than Utley’s. This is a bad suspension.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=breaking+up+double+plays
Amazing how many Freepers commented here, and obviously don’t know that trying to break up the double play has been a part of baseball practically forever.
It’s just bad luck of the broken leg.
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From this lifelong Dodger fan, it was a cheap play that should not have happened.
No more home plate shoulders.
No more hard slides to break up a DP.
Throw inside on a guy crowding that plate and get a warning if not ejected.
When do they test market underhanded pitching?