Getting the call right

[SanDiegoSteve]

In tonight's Padres/Red Sox game, third base umpire Brian Knight made two wrong calls. To his credit he conferred each time with his partners, and got the calls right.

The first was a sinking fly ball to left field which appeared at first look to be a nice shoe-top catch for Manny Ramirez, but upon replay was quite obviously a trapped ball. Brian Knight called it a catch. Bud Black came out to argue, and Knight got the umpires together and they reversed the call.

Later, Josh Bard hit a shot down the left field line which hit the foul pole dead-center against the Western Metal Supply building. Knight called it foul. Josh Bard, who was watching it the whole way, along with every Padres fan in attendance started to come unglued. Again, Knight talked it over with the crew and changed the call to a home run.

I'm certainly not in favor of asking for help on safe/out calls at the bases, but I sure was impressed that Knight went for help to get the really egregious errors corrected in these two situations.