I promised to stop commenting, but after seeing the clip, and seeing others use this clip as evidence, I have to comment.
Not having the ability to freeze frame and zoom on the FIRST portion of the clip makes it impossible to get anything from this clip. The slowmo doesn't show his feet.
At home, right after the call, on a 63 inch HD TV, I replayed this frame by frame, and I stand by my commentary that he was not completely out of the lane until AFTER the ball went by. He hit chalk on 3 consecutive steps, but was not OUTSIDE the lane on any of those 3 steps.
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"Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile." - Hall of Fame Pitcher Christy Mathewson
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