[RogersUmp]

Anyone watching the nationally televised Twins-Brewers game on Sunday got two opportunities to learn that the "hands are not part of the bat". Crede got nailed on the hand and took first...had to leave the game eventually. Then, Mauer got hit inside on the hand. This one was more interesting, though, as the PU (Reliford, I believe) called it a foul ball (sure sounded like it). But, the Twins manager came out to argue and kept pointing to the batter's hand and it didn't look like PU wanted to look and was going to stand his ground. Then, Gardenhire, in classic form, whipped off his cap and started arguing more intensely and PU finally looked at the plunked hand of the batter and changed his call. This, of course, brought out the opposing manager who didn't like the call reversal (although PU made the correct call).

The announcers were terrible through the entire episode with Steve Phillips actually saying that Macha, the 'vicitim' of the correct call, should have argued the reversal more ardently and as a player he (Phillips) would have kicked him when he returned to the bench for not doing so. What they should have said was, "See! The hands are NOT part of the bat!"