MLB: Appeal: Oh,those announcers!

[aceholleran]

Yanks/Twinkies on YES 5/16. Twins at bat.

R1, R3. 1 out. B1 flies out to F8. R3 tags up and crosses home. R1 breaks with bat-crack.

Jeter and co. try to get F8 to play to 1B, but throw goes home. No play at home.

R1 slides into 2B, advances 1 step past the base, and retreats toward 1B, without retouch of 2B. As he stands on 1B, Yanks appeal at 2B, and R1 is called out. Needless to say, this happened WELL after R3 had plated.

Michael Kay (play-by-play) actually reported the appeal call properly,citing that R1 did not retouch 2B. Of course, this is to the Yanks' advantage.

Then we get into the glue.

Since the appeal is the third out, it's time for commercials. Kay says something to the effect, "Well, let's see if they score the run ... right after this."

Back to live action: The scoreboard still shows no run for the visitors (shocked, I am!). Skip Gardenhire has to come out and have his say.

NOW, the director decides to show a split screen of R1 returning to first and R3 plating. They do this 3-4 times, as if this actually affected the play. There was, of course, no play at 1B.

I think it was color guy, David Cone, who said, "Well, it looked like [R3] scored before [R1] touched first, so they're going to count the run." The scoreboard operator begrudgingly placed the digit.

This viewer was furious at first, but this gave way to laughter. Did anyone else see it?

Ace in CT