O's Boston brawl, odd ejection?

[ozzy6900]

Originally Posted by BayStateRef

From a friend (and HS umpire) who was at the game: After the fight and because Gregg was ejected, the Orioles brought in a relief pitcher who warmed up for about 10 minutes. When he completed his warmups, Showalter called his team off the field. The Red Sox did not take the field for another minute or two.

If R3 was called out for abandoning the base, why did the umpires allow the relief pitcher to warm up? Or...my words...what took them so long to declare R3 out for abandonment?

In a perfect world, everything would fall into place and the game could have been started up in a minute following the scuffle. Unfortunatly, this is not a perfect world. I have taken up to 10 minutes trying to sort out the ejections following a fight and the ensuing arguments and show-boating. Baseball has no time limit so it behoves an umpire to take his time and get the ejections correct.

[TussAgee11]

Originally Posted by ozzy6900

In a perfect world, everything would fall into place and the game could have been started up in a minute following the scuffle. Unfortunatly, this is not a perfect world. I have taken up to 10 minutes trying to sort out the ejections following a fight and the ensuing arguments and show-boating. Baseball has no time limit so it behoves an umpire to take his time and get the ejections correct.

I think now that replay is set up in every building, altercations should be reviewable as in the NBA. It would have not been cost effective to have this be the ONLY use of replay, but now that it is in place, there is little reason not to use it when determining who was hitting who in a 50 person mob. If the commissioner's office uses video for suspensions, umpires should be able to use it to determine these sorts of ejections.

[Larry1953]

Originally Posted by TussAgee11

I think now that replay is set up in every building, altercations should be reviewable as in the NBA. It would have not been cost effective to have this be the ONLY use of replay, but now that it is in place, there is little reason not to use it when determining who was hitting who in a 50 person mob. If the commissioner's office uses video for suspensions, umpires should be able to use it to determine these sorts of ejections.

That could take a very long time to review in a game situation. Papi warranted an ejection in a real time when he walked to the mound with bat in hand. Toss the pitcher then too and you save a lot of heartburn. Let the commish pour over it frame by frame to mete out fines and suspensions in a 50 player brawl.