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Mon Jun 04, 2007, 02:41am
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Batted Ball Hits Umpire
Did anybody catch the Detroit @ Cleveland game today? I was watching highlights and there was one play that seemed kind of odd. There was a runner on first, Sheffield was batting and he hits a liner towards 2nd Base. The pitcher had no play on it. The 2B Umpire, Larry Vanover was in B and the ball nailed him right on the shin.
The umpires didn't kill the play and let it play out. I was kind of surprised they didn't kill it. Did they just miss the call or was there some other circumstance that I'm overlooking?
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Mon Jun 04, 2007, 02:42am
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The video can be viewed here:
http://mlb.mlb.com/mediacenter/index.jsp#20070603 Click the 400 K link under the column "Video Top Plays". The play is called "Sheffield singles off the umpire."
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Mon Jun 04, 2007, 06:36am
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Textbook umpire interference. Many thanks to my friend Rick Manning (the TV color man) for screwing up the rule.
This play ended a second or two after the interference. If anything else had happened, I'm sure that they would have killed it -- and for all we know one of the other umpires killed it off camera.
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