pickoff at 2nd, what's the call?

[Rich]

[QUOTE=chuckfan1]

Originally Posted by LMan

Never pass up a chance to get an out.

....And I wish you continued success in your career as UIC in your local Parks and Recreation League. Calling that play an out at a higher level wont have you there long...

Really? So the guy that called Hrbek out in the World Series had a short career?

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by RichMSN

Really? So the guy that called Hrbek out in the World Series had a short career?

That doesn't make the call right. You can't just go around pushing people off the base and tagging them. What kind of bush crap is that?

Drew Coble ruled that Gant's momentum carried him off the bag, not Hrbek's tag. Different than the OP.

[SanDiegoSteve]

From BaseballLibrary.com:

"First base umpire Drew Coble ruled that Gant, who didn't slide on the play, had come off the bag because of the momentum caused by his awkward stand-up return to the bag. "He lunged into the bag," Coble told Rob Rains of USA Today Baseball Weekly. "His momentum was carrying toward the first base dugout. When he did that, he began to switch feet. He tried to pick up one foot and bring the other one down. In my judgment, [Gant's] momentum carried him over the top of Hrbek." In essence, Coble was saying that he would have called Gant safe if he felt that Hrbek's body had forced him off the bag, but he called him out because he felt that the natural momentum of Gant's twisting body had resulted in his separation from the base."

[shickenbottom]

[QUOTE=RichMSN]

Originally Posted by chuckfan1

Really? So the guy that called Hrbek out in the World Series had a short career?

I wouldn'd call it short. Drew Coble - AL - 1983 to 1999. 16 years isn't bad, and 1999 was the strike year. So alot of umpires ended their careers that year.