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I found this on the Detroit Tigers' Fan Forum:

"Focusing on the inge/rolen collision. yes, thank you tim mccarver for defining obstruction to us...now may i return the favor and explain the baseline to you and my friend the home plate ump: inge was MINIMUM 10 feet into foul ground/out of the base path when rolen fell over him!! i guess some baseball rules carry more weight than others"

:cool:

Did you reply on the Tigers forum letting them know it was a good call?


Tim.

Randy Marsh had the obstuction too.

PWL, that's what I saw also. I assume that U3 made the initial call and Marsh picked it up to point to HP.

Almost everyone who's not an umpire will wonder why Rolen didn't step around Inge on that play :D

Here's the replay showing Marsh noting the obstruction just a split second after Winters did.


Tim.

Fair enough....I was incorrect. Good call all around, though...


Thanks, Tim!

Even Pudge saw it and knew what was called. He was not in a very aggresive plate blocking stance, fielded the throw back rather casually, and just bent over to tag Rolen.

The ball was left in play because there was not a play being made on Rolen. The ball was somewhere near the backstop when the obstruction occurred. If they had thrown the ball away trying to make a play on Rolen at the plate, the ball needs to remain alive because there were other runners.

I don't think it's difficult at all to see that Marsh turned toward third in time to see the obstruction in it's entirety. As Tex just said, the ball should have remained live and in play on the type B obstruction, until they tried to tag Rolen at the plate. I didn't see it, but Marsh should have called time as soon as the tag was applied.


Tim.

Excellent call. Can't expect a fan to see it that way.