Run Black Sox Run!
Posted on 10/12/2005 8:24:45 PM PDT by navysealdad
The umpire crew claiming they watched the blown up reverse angle replay and it was the right call....
What a crock....
The umpire should go back to T Ball
From those photos, it looks too close to call.
The batter swings and misses for strike three, seemingly ending the inning, and immediately turns and starts walking toward his dugout... The catcher stands and heads toward his own dugout and at the same time does the routine roll of the ball back to the mound. The batter suddenly changes his mind, spins around, and takes off toward first. That leaves plenty of time for SOMEBODY on the Angels to react, but nobody did. The batter makes it to first base unchallenged and is as amazed as everybody else in the stadium, not to mention the millions of television viewers, to find that he is SAFE!
The whole thing was a mess, and I have no idea how the umpire, standing BEHIND the catcher, could have determined that the ball glanced off the dirt. No way.
Wrong.
In this case the unpire was not only part of the game, he WAS the game.
You're welcome!
99 regular season wins say you are a dope.
Blame the catcher. Blame the UMP. But don't blame the Sox.
They did everything right, and both of the others screwed up. AJ got caught on that same play with the Giants, He learned his lesson.
The evidence is clear, right call by the ump, and the catcher should have tagged him out.
Go White Sox.
EXACTLY. If you zoom in on the glove, and then run the play back and forth without stopping, the angle of the ball BOUNCING UP into the mitt is clear as day......
He most certainly did.
And we don't particularly like LA anything here.
I agree and it kinda (not quite ) evens the score for the Yankee-Cano thing the other night.
It also signals strike. Sheesh.
He did not hear the *out* call, thats why he started running.
He did not hear the *out* call, thats why he started running.
I agree, He signaled out, and that's what it should have been
Your interpretation is incorrect. AJ faked out the catcher - he made the move towards his dugout to GET AROUND the catcher, and when he saw the catcher start walking away he turned and ran...
USA Soviet Union basketball Gold Medal game robbery was worse. You are a little emotional now. Review the play again and see that it may have bounced.
I believe now that the Angels will not lose another game in this series.
Actually no he did not.
I'd like to know same...
Run Black Sox Run!
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