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Originally Posted by PeteBooth
I guess we see things differently. Posey was blocking the plate well before he received the ball. IMO, that's why R3 did what he did.
Pete Booth
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Absolute nonsense. Posey was completly in fair territory and R3 had a path to the plate that did not require the take out hit.
This is not to argue that R3 shouldn't have, as a precaution to be safe, taken him out. But he didn't have to take him out to reach the plate.