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Old Wed Jun 04, 2008, 12:23pm
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Originally Posted by dash_riprock
If there was no clear audible evidence, I'd let them both go.
I would have used a bit better timing on the first one. Maybe the wind from the baseball moved the pantleg.

One the second one, I'm killing it immediately before the defense turns two and I have to piss everyone off. If I feel it hit me, it's umpire interference.

It's happened twice, once in 2000 and once this spring. Both times the defense claims I cost them 2 and the offense claimed it would've been a hit to the outfield. No sympathy for either, frankly, just pain. Both shots were metal-bat-induced laser beams that (fortunately) found flesh, not bone.
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