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Personally, I thought it was a great call by HP Umpire Doug Eddings. He had to call the bunt attempt, tag/no tag and then the interference at real time speed with Major League players involved. He got 99% (the hardest parts) of the play right on something that rarely happens in anyone's umpire career. Yeah, he enforced the penalty incorrectly but it's difficult to process all of that information including base awards/penalties in the couple of seconds it took for that whole clusterf*#k play to happen.
Actually, the crew got together briefly after the play happened so I think the crew chief and perhaps his other two partners should get some of the blame for not "chimming" in a getting the penalty enforced correctly. Expecting one guy, even at the Major League level, to straighten out this mess is a lot to ask for. I think Eddings did a great job.
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