Weird Call and Ejection

[jwwashburn]

Baseball Video Highlights & Clips | CLE@MIN: Tribe skipper Wedge is ejected for arguing - Video | MLB.com: Multimedia

The PU and MGR both got slightly upset.

[johnnyg08]

It was a weird call...they got it right though...Wedge must have wanted the night off. PU's mechanics on the play were odd...which is why there were so many questions I think.

[David B]

Originally Posted by johnnyg08

It was a weird call...they got it right though...Wedge must have wanted the night off. PU's mechanics on the play were odd...which is why there were so many questions I think.

I still couldn't tell what the PU called originally. He asked for help, but didn't get any?

Called him out and then brought him back - ball hits ground?

Thanks
David

[johnnyg08]

It seemed like he called swinging strike three. Then asked for help on the check swing or maybe a foul tip/out. Yeah, he appeared to ask, then clapped his hands together and hammered Mourneau out. Gardy comes out, he goes to ask for help, then, gets is correct w/ the foul ball call. Wedge was expected to come out...but they got the play right.

[David B]

Originally Posted by johnnyg08

It seemed like he called swinging strike three. Then asked for help on the check swing or maybe a foul tip/out. Yeah, he appeared to ask, then clapped his hands together and hammered Mourneau out. Gardy comes out, he goes to ask for help, then, gets is correct w/ the foul ball call. Wedge was expected to come out...but they got the play right.

Yeah that makes sense now, he was calling a foul tip, but he looked at the ball to see it had dirt on it which made it a foul ball.

The batter knew it also since he never took his helmet off and was just kind of standing there waiting for them to get it right.

Davidson then kind of did his best Lou Pinella act. Must have been tired of the manager that day or something.

Thanks
David

[DonInKansas]

The video played next meets the requirements for "weird call and ejection" as well. You MLB umpire haters will LOVE this one.

http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=6116597

[briancurtin]

Originally Posted by johnnyg08

It seemed like he called swinging strike three. Then asked for help on the check swing or maybe a foul tip/out. Yeah, he appeared to ask, then clapped his hands together and hammered Mourneau out. Gardy comes out, he goes to ask for help, then, gets is correct w/ the foul ball call. Wedge was expected to come out...but they got the play right.

I don't think he originally asked for help.
I've seen the clap (or sometimes bump your fists together) on a foul tip...so what I think he was signaling on the point was that the ball was caught before it hit the ground, then the clap was that it was tipped, followed by the out.

[johnnyg08]

Originally Posted by briancurtin

I don't think he originally asked for help.
I've seen the clap (or sometimes bump your fists together) on a foul tip...so what I think he was signaling on the point was that the ball was caught before it hit the ground, then the clap was that it was tipped, followed by the out.

I've never seen or heard of it before...I kind of like it though...the foul tip mechanic reminds me of the basketball mechanic of a blocked shot...which I don't like. Thanks for the post...I learned something new today

[Ump Rube]

Originally Posted by jwwashburn

Baseball Video Highlights & Clips | CLE@MIN: Tribe skipper Wedge is ejected for arguing - Video | MLB.com: Multimedia

The PU and MGR both got slightly upset.

Thank you for posting this. I was at the game sitting in CF (about 500' away, right at the end of the banner for those of you MNs) and I missed the initial call and then was really confused at what was happening.

Then I went home and tried to catch highlights but I guess MIN vs. CLE doesn't exist in the ESPN realm because they never showed any highlights. 3 hours of SportsCenter, 1.5 of Baseball Tonight, and not a single mention, of the ejection or 11-0, 2-hit shutout that was thrown by Scott Baker. WTF!?!? (Thanks for letting me rant a little bit.)

[johnnyg08]

not sure what you watched Rube...I saw the highlights that night on espn...baseball tonight though...i don't think sportscenter

[jwwashburn]

Originally Posted by Ump Rube

Thank you for posting this. I was at the game sitting in CF (about 500' away, right at the end of the banner for those of you MNs) and I missed the initial call and then was really confused at what was happening.

Then I went home and tried to catch highlights but I guess MIN vs. CLE doesn't exist in the ESPN realm because they never showed any highlights. 3 hours of SportsCenter, 1.5 of Baseball Tonight, and not a single mention, of the ejection or 11-0, 2-hit shutout that was thrown by Scott Baker. WTF!?!? (Thanks for letting me rant a little bit.)

Sportscenter and Baseball Tonight always cover every single Major League Baseball game. I saw it on both, as well.

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by Ump Rube

Thank you for posting this. I was at the game sitting in CF (about 500' away, right at the end of the banner for those of you MNs) and I missed the initial call and then was really confused at what was happening.

Then I went home and tried to catch highlights but I guess MIN vs. CLE doesn't exist in the ESPN realm because they never showed any highlights. 3 hours of SportsCenter, 1.5 of Baseball Tonight, and not a single mention, of the ejection or 11-0, 2-hit shutout that was thrown by Scott Baker. WTF!?!? (Thanks for letting me rant a little bit.)

Originally Posted by johnnyg08

not sure what you watched Rube...I saw the highlights that night on espn...baseball tonight though...i don't think sportscenter

Originally Posted by jwwashburn

Sportscenter and Baseball Tonight always cover every single Major League Baseball game. I saw it on both, as well.

Hey Rube, were you paying attention as much watching for the highlights as you were at the ballpark when it happened?

[Ump Rube]

I am not saying that I don't believe you all, it is just that there were multiple people that did not see the highlights, and all were at the game.

Were the highlights that people saw, "live" updates? And if they weren't was it just a short little 1-AB and lower 1/3 score?

And if I might rant a little more...
If this was any Yank or RSox they would have broken in to coverage to show the last inning of a 2-hit shutout.

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by Ump Rube

If this was any Yank or RSox they would have broken in to coverage to show the last inning of a 2-hit shutout.

Uh, no they wouldn't. Come on now Uncle Rube, you're telling stories again!

Not a 2-hitter. What's special about a 2-hitter? It may be the lead story on B.T., but they only break in for no-no's.

[jwwashburn]

Originally Posted by Ump Rube

I am not saying that I don't believe you all, it is just that there were multiple people that did not see the highlights, and all were at the game.

Were the highlights that people saw, "live" updates? And if they weren't was it just a short little 1-AB and lower 1/3 score?

And if I might rant a little more...
If this was any Yank or RSox they would have broken in to coverage to show the last inning of a 2-hit shutout.

I remember seeing the highlights on Baseball Tonight 100% and I am almost as certain that they were on Sportscenter.

I have never seen Sportscenter or Baseball Tonight skip a game...not even a crap game like Padres vs Nationals or Padres vs anybody....

The reason the RedSox and the Yanks get more coverage is because more people care. The only exception is when they show Women's Basketball games and highlights...they do this to be politically correct, not because people care.

Fox execs would jump out of a window if they ended up with Colorado vs Minnesota World Series.