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Originally Posted by DG
As I walk away I am thinking F5 may not have gotten the glove on him.
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There's a difference between "thinking F5 MAY NOT have gotten a glove on him" and SEEING something other than a straight slide in and a missed tag.
I didn't see the OP, so I can't comment on what happened there. Maybe it was just missed. Maybe the umpire didn't expect the type of slide ("surprise is the umpire's worst enemy"), so he had poor timing. Maybe he mis-spoke (or was mis-heard).
For me, I'll look only as closely as I have to. If the ball is there, and the tag is down, it's up to the runner to convince me that the tag was missed by doing something other than sliding straight in and making me see the missed tag. Some runners have done that. Some have not.