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Originally Posted by jicecone
I am not so sure what seems to be the problem here. Everyone screamed for replay for years and now that the correct call is made with the use of replay ?????  |
I agree. Without IR, the play stands (unless after the umpires get together, U2 informs U1 he saw a tag, and the call gets reversed), and the pundits scream and cry how Toronto got jobbed and we need IR. With IR, the call was eventually made right, which is the whole purpose of IR.
I suppose one could argue that Oakland got jobbed by U1's initial call of Safe. And you really can't counter that the catcher should have tagged R3 coming home, because he had no reason to with the way things initially played out. No player is taught to tag a runner on a force play, just in case. And if the A's had lost by a run and the protest had gone through, I seriously doubt the MLB suits would have overturned the scoring of the run.
Sorry, but dems da breaks. Heads up call by the Jays manager on this one.