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Originally posted by ump24
Last night Dana Demuth made a call as the plate umpire. He called David Justice out for being outside the running lane. The first base coach for the Yankees protested the call on the basis that Justice was already on the bag when the ball hit him. Replay showed this to be true. Dana's arguement was Justice was not in the lane at the time the ball was thrown. In my mind the call was made correctly. I do not work in the professional book (OBR) ever. In amateur ball I would claim that the correct call was made. Penny for your thoughts.
The problem with this call is that it is not applied on a consistent basis even at the PRO level. In the ACLS series a few yrs. back (Yanks vs. Indians) we had a no call on a similar type play except B1 would definitely have been out -no question about it and yet no call was made.
Knoblauch during "live" action went ballistic over the non call.
Now during last night's game we have a runner outside the lane who was safe but violated the rule and the PU made the out call. It would be interesting if we could get inside the minds of the other umpires to see how many of them would have called interference on this play.
My gut tells me that we would have many different calls on this type of play depending upon the PU assigned. So IMO that's the main reason for the confusion and protests over this call.
Pete Booth
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Peter M. Booth
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