[tibear]

Anyone see the Arizona - Maryland Game on Saturday when the third base umpire fell asleep.

R1 & R2, batter swings and misses the pitch and the ball goes back to the backstop. Plate umpire signals swinging strike and turns to watch the catcher play the ball. The runners then break to steal, catcher throws the ball to F5 who tags R2 out by 10 feet.

Everyone then looks at U3 and he's signalling foul ball. Time is called, U3 tells the defensive coach that PU called a foul ball. TV picked up the conference which went something like:
U3 - You called foul on that didn't you.
PU - Nope. Kid had a full swing but didn't touch the ball.
U3 - Well, then I'm calling a foul.

There was some discussion but no heated debate, probably because the score was already something like 7-1.

Next pitch was a three run homerun.

Didn't cost Arizona the game but umpire still screwed up BIGTIME.

These are the best umpires they can find???