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Here's the question that's been nagging me since day one:
Where is the professional scorekeeper in all of this? Surely they knew it was a timing play. And they must have known the run scored. Everyone would have been served if they sent word to the field about Fido being violated, and no one would have been the wiser. You've got a lot of time between innings in a MLB game.
Look, Marv had a senior moment, and the other three probably didn't see it. The fifth wheel starts hearing about it in the dugout, yanks a field guy to thumb through the book for some rule, other than 9.01(c), to stave off the ugly protest. Failing that, they "get the call right", and back over the PU. I guess they thought that the protest coming from this direction would be easier to deflect.
Again, the only folks who've thought any more than thirty seconds about this are us umpire geeks.
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