Craziness at AT&T Park

Don't know what replays the umps watched but that was NOT a home run.

 

Wow. And just when you thought you had seen everything before ... proof positive that watching ballgames always has the chance of seeing something new.

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Yeah, I thought the replay was inconclusive, at best, but there was green paint on the ball, which was the more compelling evidence.

 

They didn't with Ventura.

You can't pinch-run on a HR.... no matter the ACTUAL delay.

If the guy doesn't touch the plate, he doesn't hit a homer.

 

Yet another "So You Think You Know Baseball" moment . ..

 

"Hal the Referee" was Hal Lebovitz, longtime Cleveland sportswriter who died in 2005. After leaving the PD in the early 80s, he started writing a column for The News-Herald and Lorain Morning Journal, a pair of sister papers in the suburbs, until he died at the age of 89 in 2005.

A number of network announcers, including Costas and Joe Buck, kept his phone number to get clarifications on wacky plays. Legend has it that Buck called him during a commercial break in a baseball game to get an explanation on a rule.

 

Simple fix to the rule. A manager cannot appeal after the next pitch, substitution or play (i.e. appealing a player missed a base, etc.). Sort of like football, you have to throw the red flag before the ball is snapped.

 

Bochy said he tried to tell the ump that he didn't want to make the switch yet, but Burriss didn't hear him and just ran out there. Once Burriss touched the bag, the ump said, he was in the game.

Apparently the Giants didn't realize the ball was a homer initially. After a few moments, Omar Vizquel told Bochy that he thought he heard metal when the ball hit (the metal part on top of the faux-brick fence). That's when Bochy came out to argue. Burriss said he'd been told before the at-bat that if Molina singled, he was going to pinch-run. Burriss said he stood there for a moment waiting for someone to send him out, but no one said anything, so he just went.

Personally I think that a replay change ought to just erase any substitutions that happened. It's different from having thrown another pitch or run another play in football. It's easy to take a pinch-runner away. The whole point of replay is to erase what happened and make it right.

That said, I wouldn't object either if they used Inky's suggestion, and said any action by a player or manager (a pitch or a substitution) means you can't go back.

Either way, MLB needs to pick one of the above and put it in black-and-white.