Red Sox/Yankees-checked swing.

[Jay R]

Originally posted by Kaliix
The only thing that bothered me about that Manny Ramirez check swing is that I have seen that type of check swing before and it has always been called a swing and a strike.

If he wasn't attempting to hit the ball, how come he turned his body all the way around?

Should have been a strike...

Because he was getting out of the way of the ball and he turned his body in the process.

This was a really difficult call because Ramirez started to swing and tried to hold up. At the same time, the ball was coming at him and he tried to get out of the way. West had to rule on whether his intitial swing was a strike. How he bailed out after is irrelevant.