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Originally Posted by rbmartin
This was a very correctable error. It's not that unusual for a field umpire to kill the play and rule "foul ball" on a play in the box that HP doesn't see (ie foul ball catches the batters toe before rolling into fair territory). It is obvious that at least U2 saw the play and should have killed it.
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I disagree. This was essentially a catch/no-catch call that the responsible umpire may have missed. Another umpire should not come in right away to overrule his/her partner when that happens.
If U2 definitely had a catch, why didn't he pipe up during the conference? From the video, it appeared to me he had nothing to say.
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