I have watched it a couple of times. It does not look like a dirty play to me.
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Nope. It just led to a bad injury. And Utley took a foot to the groin and a knee to the head.
Agreed, Utley took a ringer to the head & according to the ruling, he was safe whether he touched the base or not. The ump made an incorrect out call so by the rules, ruling is reversed..safe.
Utley was just trying to break up a double play..happens all the time. Unfortunately, resulted in broken/fractured femur.
Exactly. My take is Utley didn't expect Tejada to swing back towards him. He thought Tejada was going to swing to the right out of his path and throw to first. The tipoff of what Utley was thinking was that his face hit Tejada's knee when Tejada swung back around to the left. Putting your face into someone's knee is hardly the type of thing that someone, no matter how tough they are, does intentionally.