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Originally Posted by BretMan
I honestly haven't seen the play. Links to it have been posted on several websites, so maybe I should take a look.
I was going strictly by Steve's description of the play:
"He definitely left his newly established base path to make the contact, and if any call were to be made, he should have been called out for going more than 3 feet out of his baseline to avoid a tag."
This passage seems to conect two events. Leaving his baseline to establish contact (with Vizquel) and being called out for illegally avoiding a tag.
Since no mention is made of a fielder possessing the ball, or a fielder with the ball attempting a tag, I can only surmise that the description is referring to the runner's path in relation to Vizquel as a violation.
Anything else would be conjecture on my part or an omission from Steve's description.
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Bret,
I said "if any call were to be made." That means that I really don't feel the right call was made, and that if any call at all were necessary it would be for running more than three feet out of the basepath to avoid a tag. They were chasing Victorino, and Victorino clearly went
way out of his way (almost a direct line to
3rd base) to intentionally run into Visquel. And then he did something smart. Instead of stopping running waiting for a call, he tried to start a new path from that point to second base. Not only was he avoiding a tag, he was initiating contact that would never have happened had he not initiated it purposefully.
Trust me. Bad call.