Texas - ASU game 3

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by MrUmpire

I didn't see the play. Despite ball four, was R1 stealing?

Yes - plus full count and check swing. I'm sure catcher was throwing in case he appealed and got a strike out of it.

And as much as I was rooting for UT --- I didn't see any reason for interference on BR either. Nomah was going ON and ON about no contact, and other irrelevant nonsense. But I didn't see INT either. Not because there wasn't a play - but because I simply didn't see BR interfering with the throw at all.

Would love to have been a fly in that umpire huddle.

[JJ]

Any chance someone can post the video?

JJ

[GA Umpire]

YouTube - ‪NCAA Bat int. June 12‬‏

[umpjim]

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

Posted on YouTube off someone's TV screen.

[zm1283]

Don't see interference from what the video shows.

[umpjim]

Box score shows Wilson out on BI with a (3-2 KBFBB) count. They show no BB for him.
http://http://www.texassports.com/sp....html#GAME.PLY

[jicecone]

Inter what? That wasn't close. Neither was the attempt.

PU had to have a brain freeze about ball four. BR even hesitates until catcher releases ball. Of course F2 also had a brain freeze. He is allowed to throw to second but I certainly wouldn't be calling interference on this unless BR went out of his way to interfer.

And the announcers, well you have to have a brain before it can become frozen on you.

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by jicecone

Inter what? That wasn't close. Neither was the attempt.

PU had to have a brain freeze about ball four. BR even hesitates until catcher releases ball. Of course F2 also had a brain freeze. He is allowed to throw to second but I certainly wouldn't be calling interference on this unless BR went out of his way to interfer.

And the announcers, well you have to have a brain before it can become frozen on you.

I'm not convinced from the video we've seen that I would call this INT either - but we should also remember that PU has the opposite angle we do, and was closer.

How did F2 have a brain freeze - on a 3-2 count and a steal (AND a check swing), you aren't going to wait for the call or the appeal on the swing to throw the ball - you're going to throw it down first.

[umpjim]

Originally Posted by umpjim

Box score shows Wilson out on BI with a (3-2 KBFBB) count. They show no BB for him.
http://http://www.texassports.com/sp....html#GAME.PLY

Not up to speed on scoring but perusing a better link to this game's scoring I see that any other player's BB had 4 B's in the player's at bat recap:

Arizona St. vs Texas - Baseball Division I - June 12, 2011 - NCAA.com

Wilson's at bat does not. Was he in limbo until ump said ball 4 and thus he was a batter and not a BR and thus called out for BI? Did the pitcher not walk him? What did they do with that pitch?

[txump81]

PU came up with BI by pointing towards the BR with his left hand and a fist on the right. He then realized it was ball 4 and seemed to reverse his call. Then Garriso came out to argue and the umpires got together and 4 had a brain freeze. F4 mishandled a mediocre throw to 1B. He took his eyes off the ball and was thinking about the tag. If I was ASU coach, I might have said the magic "P" word.

From what I saw, the BR didn't cross in front of F2 until F2's arm was back by his side. Don't see how that is INT.