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Sal:
I agree, what the SS did was a rat move. However, Emmel, while his "heart" might have been in the right place (Rat moves will be punished!) flew DIRECTLY in the rulings as outlined in the MLBUM. The book CLEARLY says what the rat did was type B.
Emmel let emotion get the best of him. There is no way to defend this a "delayed type A". The book says it is type B, he signalled type B, he did not kill the play immediately on the catch, he waited until the ball was thrown in. But he then said, "This has to be punished!" and scored the runner.
Now, under type B, he can obviously "judge" that the run would have scored absent the OBS, but if he "judged" that in this case, that was pretty poor judgment. If he called type A, he did so with poor mechanics and if he called "delayed type A", he did so in contridiction of the MLBUM.
One way or the other, Emmel blew the call, and the Seattle manager knew it.
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