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Tony, it could only be protestable if someone actually told us here what PU said was his reason for the safe call, and his reason involved a misapplication of a rule.
While it certainly SOUNDS like a bad call, given only the information in the initial post, I'm convinced there was some reason for the extremely delayed call, and therefore we don't have all of the information.
Edited to add: In a play where I was at the plate this past season, on a passed ball, runner slid, but slid short (there was no OBS, as F2 had the ball) as F2 brought the ball to the plate. Runner never touched the bag. F2 never tagged her. Both of them looked at me for about a second and a half, as I made no call. F5 was yelling for the ball as R2 (originally on 1st) was coming to third. F2 pushed off of R1 (ball still in glove) as she was standing up to make the throw, and I bang R1 out.
NO ONE came to ask me about the call.
And I guarantee if anyone watching that play came here to post about it, they would have had no idea why the call was delayed so long, and would have made some assumptions that may be erroneous.
[Edited by mcrowder on Jul 19th, 2005 at 03:23 PM]
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