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During the Red sox As game on Monday September 6, the score was 4-3 Red Sox in the bottom of the eighth when the As Mark Kotsay led off the inning with a low line drive that left fielder Manny Ramirez trapped. The umpire Brian Knight ruled the play a catch.
The players in the A's bullpen jumped off their seats in disbelief at the call. Kotsay needed to be restrained by the A's first-base coach. After the inning, teammates escorted Kotsay out to center, just to make sure he didn't continue to argue and get ejected.
In the ninth the Red Sox scored four more runs. After the first three runs were in Doug Mientkiewicz hit a blooper into center, and Knight ruled correctly that Kotsay trapped the ball. Kotsay gestured at Knight clearly indicating that it was the second call he got wrong. The fans got fired up and littered the field with debris, mostly water bottles, and the game was halted for about five minutes.
The umpire got one wrong on a play which may have had an impact on the game. The player riled up the fans on a play where he showed up the umpire when the umpire was right. At the major league level the reply can speak for it self. Any thoughts on how to handle some thing like this at lower levels of play?
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Tue Sep 07, 2004, 04:52pm
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