[greymule]

I still think the call of waving off the run was erroneous judgment (mainly from failure to pay attention), not misapplication of a rule. There's no way that 4 MLB umps didn't know the rule. And even if they didn't, plenty of people there would have known it, and Baltimore would have lodged a protest then and there.

But they instead (preposterously) claimed the run didn't make it across the plate in time. So it's a judgment call that can't be protested.

Later, whether by a surreptitious look at a replay or simply thinking about the obvious timing of the play, the umps realized they had robbed Baltimore of a run. So how do you "make things right"? You make up an excuse that you had misinterpreted a rule.