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Mmmmm,
I am a member of a private baseball umpire e-mail group.
One member is a college umpire.
This member worked the Stanford/Texas series a couple of weeks ago.
As the PU he had a 5-2-3 double play that was REALLY, REALLY close at both calls.
My friend, on the plate, called the UT runner from third out in a very close call. His partner at first, Jon Bible, called the BR out.
Auggie argued both calls strongly. The fans were wild.
The game ended.
One UT fan got a televison replay of the game and did stop action on both plays and posted them on her "Longhorn Baseball" website.
She mentioned quite strongly that what appeared at the game to the fans (that both runners beat the throws and should have been safe) was WRONG. She posted the two stop action shots showing both calls of "OUT!" were correct and the umpires were correct.
She then concluded her story:
"My seats are in Row 22 on the first base side," she continued, "I thought the calls were wrong but it was proven that they were indeed correct, HOWEVER, the plate umpire's stike zone was still terribly inconsistent!"
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