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Posted on 10/27/2015 9:45:13 PM PDT by NRx
David Wright blew what should have been an easy out in the bottom of the 14th which turned into the winning run.
Oh. I didn’t see the 14th. Our DVR shut off in the 13th. Didn’t allow for so many innings.
Cespedes. It was an easy fly ball he misjudged and dropped.
Mets never win Game 1.
It wasn’t an error. He didn’t drop the ball because he never had it in his glove. It never touched his glove. It hit his left leg and then hit the ground.
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Yeah I see it didn’t hit glove. But if a fielder goes for an in-reach ball and it hits his body near his glove, it should be an error.
Actually I’m just sick of hearing about Escobar’s great-feat-that-was-a-flyout, and Harvey getting an earned run, when Cespedes flat-out bungled it.
I’m not sure how they determine what is and what isn’t. I’ve seen plays before that I didn’t think were errors, and they were, and vice versa. I guess it is what it is.
I stayed up...with eyes crossing, almost...from being sooo tired....and listened to Trump’s Iowa speech at the same time, too!
Great speech...great game!!! Winning combo, for the night/wee hours :)
You are correct that the ball doesn't have to touch the glove to be an error. Otherwise, when an infielder lifts up too early on an easy ground ball which rolls between the infielder's legs but doesn't touch the glove would have to be ruled a hit. The standard is whether the ball should have been caught with reasonable effort. In my opinion, Cespedes' play was clearly an error. Lorenzo Cain would have made that look like a deep but routine fly ball.
I'm glad it happened though. Go Royals.
Now that was a great game - start to finish!
But even if it had been called an error, Escobar would have scored, but it wouldn't have been an inside the parker. But I'm not sure how they would have called it then.
It would have been called a four-base error. The official scorer has to explain how a runner advanced to each base. That's why all the different rulings exist (error or hit, passed ball or wild pitch, stolen base or defensive indifference). In this case, Escobar reached 1st and advanced to 2nd, 3rd, and home because of the same error - a four-base error rather than four separate errors.
Why that “home run” wasn’t scored an error is a mystery
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Errors and base hits are a whole lot different from what they used to be. It benefits both the batter and the defender to call an error a base hit.
Error and an unearned run.
Crazy, entertaining, and long game.
Go Royals.
Inside the park home runs seem to be scored that way even if a similar play on a shorter hit would have been ruled an error if the base runner ended up on second or third. I’ve noticed that for years, but I’ve never asked if there is a rule that covers this.
He certainly misjudged it but I don't think he ever got glove on the ball to drop it. Should probably have been an error.
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