Sunday, April 29, 2007
how do you get that far without knowing the rules?
It boggles my mind what happened in Saturday's Indians v. Orioles game. For those of you that didn't see it there were men on the corners with one out in a one-run game when Grady Sizemore, the Indian CF, made a diving catch on a line drive off of the bat of Ramon Hernandez for the second out of the inning. After the catch Nick Markakis tagged from third base and scored ahead of a throw that doubled Tejada up as he attempted to return to 1B. Every high school coach and umpire knows that this is a different type of double play ball than the 6-4-3 type that has a force play that is being completed. In this case, even though Tejada was mandated to return to 1B, it isn't by book rule a "force play" and the events described above should have led to a run for the Orioles. The umpires blew it and didn't allow the run, that is disturbing, the manager of the Orioles was shown after the play oblivious to the fact that his team should have gotten a run and didn't say anything until long after the inning was over. The score was changed by the umpires approximately three innings later. I am all for "getting it right", but so many things had transpired at that point that could have been different if the score was changed immediately. You can't go back three innings and change something that you got wrong. It is too late. There are plenty of times that the wrong call is made, in all sports, and if play continues and they don't catch it, then they don't compound the mistake by making another one. That is what you deal with when you have human error involved. It is part of sports. The fact that they made this change so much later in the game is atrocious. The umpires should be suspended and the Oriole manager should be fined by his team for not knowing enough to go out and support his team. Indian manager, Eric Wedge, protested the game and he has every reason to win this protest. It was an embarrassment!!
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