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Old Wed May 23, 2012, 11:45am
Eastshire Eastshire is offline
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Originally Posted by CT1 View Post
The explanation given was that Gant's momemtum was carrying him off the bag, and the contact by Hrbek didn't have a material effect. IOW, that Gant would have likely come off the bag without the contact.

As a biased Braves fan, naturally I didn't see it that way.
Momentum nothing, his leg was lifted off the bag. Lateral momentum doesn't turn into vertical momentum in that manner.
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