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Hmmmm,
"Tie Goes to the runner."
First of all the National Transportation and Safety Board, through interviews with witnesses to all type accidents have deduced that it is impossible for the human brain to determine the order of happenings when things happen in a window shorter than .0445 seconds.
The eye can "see" what happens but the brain cannot determine the order of the activity in those nano-seconds.
So when we have a close play old Tee follows the formula:
"Let's see, that sucker was REALLY close . . . if I call him safe then the inning will drag on and there will probably be about 12 more hitters . . . on the OTHER HAND if I call him out that means we get outta here and I can have an extra cold adult beverage or two . . . hmmmm, I wonder what he is . . ."
In seriousness, ALWAYS reward the defense . . . the rules are written FIRST to score runs and SECOND to stop the scoring of runs . . . in the long run the defense is required to "stop" the offense. Advantage/Disadvantage umpiring dictates this call to be an "OUT".
No ties in baseball (butt'cept for the All Star Game).
Tee
Others have more than adequately pointed out RandellUmps misstatement IF one works FEDlandia.
T
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