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Originally Posted by gordon30307
Look at the play again. The PU is TBLX and not right field. He had a great look at the play. Actually he had a better look than the camera angles. Timing was great (could have sold it better) if Barret holds the ball he's out. If not he's safe.
Actually the "safe play" is to call him out. Easy to argue he never got the plate.
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I dont think the timing was great at all.. and in fact, there would be little controversy if his mechanics on this play were better.
Given McClelland says he saw the player touch the plate (and he probably has the best vantage for that), I'm not sure why he said in the interview ""The reason I waited was to see if Michael even had held onto the ball, but the ball got away (even though I thought he was safe)," he said. "It's really not my style anyway."
Safe is safe, his holding the ball is irrelevant.
Sometimes umpiring is about selling a bang bang- so I think if he sells safe almost immediately, he is believable as far as what he thinks he saw.
That said, if we end up with some eyeball bleeding yawner of a World Series like Rockies vs Angels, its not his fault.