Calls that may end a game

[lawump]

Look closely at the play-by-play below this box score to see how this game ended:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bo...98607100.shtml

This was 1986 Angles at Red Sox (regular season...not the ALCS). I have seen this game on video several times.

In the top of the 12th, the Angels score three runs. The Sox score 3 in bottom of the 12th (and as you can see...they came with some help from the Angels).

With the winning run on third (Dwight Evans), the Angles' pitcher went to the wind-up. With the ball in the pitcher's glove, the Angles' pitcher slightly moved his pitching hand/arm toward his glove and put it back down. It was a slight movement..to the point where none of the announcers (and I've seen the Red Sox broadcast tape and Angels' tape) saw it live. On replay, you can see the slight movement. And let me make it clear...the pitcher definitely moved his pitching hand. He "started and stopped" (his motion).

I'd like to think I have the guts to make that (or a similar) call...someday I'm sure I'll find out.

(As an aside: It is funny as hell to see these two tapes. The Red Sox broadcasters' think its a great call...the Angels' broadcasters are screaming that it is a bush way to end the game and that the umpires were taking the game out of the players' hands. Sort of a microcosm of this entire thread.)