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From BaseballLibrary.com:
"First base umpire Drew Coble ruled that Gant, who didn't slide on the play, had come off the bag because of the momentum caused by his awkward stand-up return to the bag. "He lunged into the bag," Coble told Rob Rains of USA Today Baseball Weekly. "His momentum was carrying toward the first base dugout. When he did that, he began to switch feet. He tried to pick up one foot and bring the other one down. In my judgment, [Gant's] momentum carried him over the top of Hrbek." In essence, Coble was saying that he would have called Gant safe if he felt that Hrbek's body had forced him off the bag, but he called him out because he felt that the natural momentum of Gant's twisting body had resulted in his separation from the base."
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