Post Season Boo Boos

[JR12]

I apologize if this was already posted. The worst was the 2 Yanks standing off 3rd when tagged.

Baseball Video Highlights & Clips | Controversial postseason calls: Who was right? - Video | MLB.com: Multimedia

[SanDiegoSteve]

Yeah, all the boo-boos made the rounds already, right after they happened.

[Kevin Finnerty]

I thought that this post-season's score of blunders and inane explanations would make it markedly more difficult for all of us at umpiring's lower levels to umpire ballgames.

The opposite has been the case. I have been complimented and thanked and praised more then ever. The appreciation of our work has actually been heightened---at least in my area.

Thank you, Tim McClelland! And thank you, C.B. Bucknor!

[JR12]

Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve

Yeah, all the boo-boos made the rounds already, right after they happened.

yea, I just never saw them all together. Usually every post season has one contraversial call, but wow!

[Umpmazza]

Originally Posted by JR12

yea, I just never saw them all together. Usually every post season has one contraversial call, but wow!

there were alot of them, but I still think the safe call on the double play in the Angels /yankee's game was a good call, Eybar never touch the base..

[kylejt]

Originally Posted by Umpmazza

there were alot of them, but I still think the safe call on the double play in the Angels /yankee's game was a good call, Eybar never touch the base..

It was the correct call, but was it good? If you've been calling that an out for the last fifty years, and you suddenly not call it, is it good?

And I agree with Kevin, I got nothing but praise for my games after all that nonsense.

[dash_riprock]

There was bad umpiring that didn't make the highlight video too.

One of my favorites was in game 4 when Jeter walked on a 3-1 pitch way outside and in the dirt. The bat never left Jeter's shoulder. Mike Everitt pointed him to 1st base with his left hand, and Dana DeMuth promptly gave the safe sign indicating "no swing." A junior high ump would get dinged for doing that.

[chuckfan1]

Originally Posted by Umpmazza

there were alot of them, but I still think the safe call on the double play in the Angels /yankee's game was a good call, Eybar never touch the base..

Look at it this way, if the umpire had called the out at 2nd base, do you think there would have been a peep from the Yankees? Never know for sure, but have to think highly unlikely. Because thats the expected call. Thats baseball. Every sport is different in its play, and its officiating.
And why wouldnt the Yankees say anything on an out call? Because that play has happened thousands of times, and its been an out. And because the Yankees want that same call if a similar play happens later in the game/series. And Im sure there has been times in the past, even recent, where the INF didnt actually touch the base, and its an out.

If the umpire had called that an out, and they replayed it, the announcers wouldve picked up on the non touch of 2nd, but they would have had the same explanation for the viewing audience.... that play is always called an out.