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Old Thu Aug 09, 2012, 02:42pm
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Originally Posted by JugglingReferee View Post
Yeah, but there's no way that U3 could see that definitively. He might've seen a change in direction in the ball's travel, but that change could've happened with the ball hitting the glove's webbing instead of the ground (and until you provided this video clip, that's what it looked like).

What this clip also showed was that U1 never changed his initial call. After U3 left the crew discussion to inform the manager of the decision, the camera stayed on the remaining three umpires. The impression I got was that U1 wasn't happy with the reversal.
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