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Originally Posted by socalblue1
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Originally Posted by PeteBooth
Pete,
My problem is this: Under OBR the rule book has several areas where the next pitch or play specifically precludes an appeal or protest. Sure we can fall back to 9.01(C) but IMO it's a hard sell.
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Socalblue I am not trying to beat a "dead horse" but IMO the following says it all
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According to MLB the umps can act at their own discretion concerning RULE discrepancies.
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the way I interpret this is that the provisions that are outlined in the OBR rule book governing the time the defense has to protest or appeal are NOT valid concerning a RULE Descrepancy meaning the umpires can FIX however they seem fit and there is no TIME TABLE on when they can do this.
Now I agree with you for amateur baseball in that if it's an "easy fix' "fix it" but if 'some time' has gone by TOO BAD as the manager needed to do 'something" when it happened.
My point was that IMO MLB opened up a "can of worms' when they allowed the umpires to put up a run 3 innings later. I thought as you did that the rule missapplication needed to be discovered in the same manner as an appeal situation.
My gut tells me there would have been a different outcome had that run that the umpires put back on the board was the winning run. In other words let's say the indians / O's were tied after 9 complete innings but instead of going to extras, the umpires discovered their 3rd inning mistake in the 9th inning and declared the game over. Then it would have been "very interesting" to see what MLB would have done in that situation.
Pete Booth