Red Sox/Yankees-checked swing.

Kaliix · #1 (**permalink**) Tue Oct 19, 2004, 10:27am

Maybe my recollection of the swing is different than yours, but I don't remember him having to get out of the way of the ball.

I just thought he tried to stop his swing by holding the bat back and letting his body twist around practically as far as he could twist it without falling over.

All I'm saying is that I have seen that move a number of times before in MLB games and it has always been called a strike. West's call was inconsistent with how I have seen every other MLB umpire call it.

And I personally thought it should have been a strike.

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Originally posted by Jay R

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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.