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World Series Game 1: Mets @ Royals (Wow! What a game!)
NRx | 10-27-2015 | Vanity

Posted on 10/27/2015 9:45:13 PM PDT by NRx

Anyone watching the game? This is is crazy nail biter. As of posting it's tied 4-4 in the 13th inning.


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To: Misterioso

David Wright blew what should have been an easy out in the bottom of the 14th which turned into the winning run.


41 posted on 10/28/2015 12:15:14 AM PDT by NRx (An unrepentant champion of the old order and determined foe of damnable Whiggery in all its forms.)
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To: NRx

Oh. I didn’t see the 14th. Our DVR shut off in the 13th. Didn’t allow for so many innings.


42 posted on 10/28/2015 2:05:53 AM PDT by Misterioso (Altruism is a sin.)
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To: Misterioso

Cespedes. It was an easy fly ball he misjudged and dropped.


43 posted on 10/28/2015 2:42:12 AM PDT by ReaganGeneration2
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To: NRx

Mets never win Game 1.


44 posted on 10/28/2015 3:24:15 AM PDT by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is now on twitter @SarahMGellar)
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To: ReaganGeneration2

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.


45 posted on 10/28/2015 4:15:55 AM PDT by Ray54
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To: Ray54; Jim Robinson

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46 posted on 10/28/2015 4:18:14 AM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: TomGuy
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47 posted on 10/28/2015 4:23:22 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (As we say in the Air Force, "You know you're over the target when you start getting flak!")
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To: morphing libertarian

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48 posted on 10/28/2015 4:40:41 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (FreeRepublic needs your financial support.)
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To: Ray54

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.


49 posted on 10/28/2015 4:40:53 AM PDT by ReaganGeneration2
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To: ReaganGeneration2

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.


50 posted on 10/28/2015 4:48:32 AM PDT by Ray54
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To: Grams A; onyx

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 :)


51 posted on 10/28/2015 6:25:54 AM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: ReaganGeneration2; Ray54
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.

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.

52 posted on 10/28/2015 7:18:55 AM PDT by CommerceComet (Ignore the GOP-e. Cruz to victory in 2016.)
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To: JennysCool

Now that was a great game - start to finish!


53 posted on 10/28/2015 7:32:05 AM PDT by Verbosus (/* No Comment */)
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To: CommerceComet
Thanks for the explanation. I'm glad it happened as well. I've been a Royals fan since the 70's.

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.

54 posted on 10/28/2015 9:46:59 AM PDT by Ray54
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To: Ray54
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.

55 posted on 10/28/2015 11:24:40 AM PDT by CommerceComet (Ignore the GOP-e. Cruz to victory in 2016.)
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To: ReaganGeneration2

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.


56 posted on 10/28/2015 11:33:53 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
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To: Ray54
But I'm not sure how they would have called it then.

Error and an unearned run.

57 posted on 10/28/2015 11:36:35 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: NRx

Crazy, entertaining, and long game.

Go Royals.


58 posted on 10/28/2015 11:44:31 AM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: ReaganGeneration2

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.


59 posted on 10/28/2015 11:44:36 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: ReaganGeneration2
Cespedes. It was an easy fly ball he misjudged and dropped.

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.

60 posted on 10/28/2015 11:47:22 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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