ML blown call?

[Ump Rube]

Originally Posted by kylejt

WTF

over.

Okay, you MLB umpire butt kissers, 'splain that one to me, Lucy.

And how does Jim Tracy not know the rules? What on Earth did the PU say to him, to make him walk away from putting that runner back to 3rd? I mean the BR is on the ground in pain!

Sure didn't look like pain to me, looked like he swung and missed with too much power and ended up on his backside. Sure got up quickly too.

How does U1 or U3 NOT call time, and fix this?

Not their call to make. BUT, it is not as though it drilled him it merely grazed him, and then got shin-guard, from 120' away at a 45* angle to this I can see how it may go unnoticed. If you notice even the pitcher is coming in and trying to get the ball to make a play.

Okay, I get the announcers don't know, that's okay. They get a pass.

Don't give them a pass, that is why they can get away with what they say.

Alright, I watched it again, and U3 was probably blocked out by R3 ( He shouldn't have, because he's got checkswings on lefties). U1 didn't have an angle on ball hitting the back leg. U2 is too far away. I'm just guessing the PU thought the ball bounced off the catcher. Yow, that's awful.

Bottom line: U3 has to see this. That's his job.

His job here is the check-swing. Nothing else.