Pirates/Braves ending

[Rich]

7/26 game. Ended just before 2AM, 19 innings, Braves won 4-3.

Find it once the video's posted. Oh, my.

[yawetag]

Baseball Video Highlights & Clips | PIT@ATL: Proctor, Braves walk off in the 19th inning - Video | MLB.com: Multimedia

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by RichMSN

7/26 game. Ended just before 2AM, 19 innings, Braves won 4-3.

Find it once the video's posted. Oh, my.

Aw, c'mon. I'm sure Jerry was tired and just wanted to go to bed.

On the other hand:
Umpire Jerry Meals: Braves-Pirates call 'might have' been wrong | MLB.com: News

[yawetag]

Originally Posted by mbyron

Aw, c'mon. I'm sure Jerry was tired and just wanted to go to bed.

On the other hand:
Umpire Jerry Meals: Braves-Pirates call 'might have' been wrong | MLB.com: News

Like a non-umpire said somewhere else: If he's so blind he missed the original call, then he needs to quit umpiring. If he's so blind he can't tell he missed it on replay, then he needs to quit driving, too.

It was worth a laugh.

[David B]

Originally Posted by mbyron

Aw, c'mon. I'm sure Jerry was tired and just wanted to go to bed.

On the other hand:
Umpire Jerry Meals: Braves-Pirates call 'might have' been wrong | MLB.com: News

LOL, good game management by the PU ... somebody had to end it.

Thanks
David

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

I am a nominal Pirates fan and I watched the replay on SportsCenter, and it is my humble opinion that the Braves' player slid under the attempted tag of the Pirates' catcher. When F2 swung his left hand to make the tag, he missed tagging the Braves' runner's leg.

MTD, Sr.

[JRutledge]

I am not convinced the catcher tagged the runner. Yes the throw beat him, but I see no direct evidence he tagged him as the glove hand never alters or moves has he sweeps through. It is possible he tagged him, but the replay does not show me 100%. One of the reasons I am not a fan of replay, because this is not a solid angle if you want to be sure. But in a game at my level this is likely going to be an out unless I clearly saw something that clearly showed a missed tag. No one said what we do is easy.

Peace

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

I am not convinced the catcher tagged the runner. Yes the throw beat him, but I see no direct evidence he tagged him as the glove hand never alters or moves has he sweeps through. It is possible he tagged him, but the replay does not show me 100%. One of the reasons I am not a fan of replay, because this is not a solid angle if you want to be sure. But in a game at my level this is likely going to be an out unless I clearly saw something that clearly showed a missed tag. No one said what we do is easy.

Peace

Jeff:

I agree with you. After I made my first post, I checked MLB.com and about 2/3rd of the way through the video there is a good replay angle and F2's sweep went over the runner's leg.

MTD, Sr.

[Rich]

There is one replay from the Pirates telecast (I was watching this live -- only because I'm a Phillies fan and wanted to see the Braves lose and because I was sneaking in a post-midnight workout) where it is 100% clear that the tag brushes the front leg of R3. It's Meals's job to see that OR it's his job to make the expected call there and not guess a miss.

After 600+ pitches and 6:39 and two ejections and 19 innings, I'm sure he was tired and fatigue could've played into the call. All the more reason to call the out on this play. And since the batter-runner face-planted 15 feet out of the box, it would've been an inning-ending double play.

[Eastshire]

Originally Posted by RichMSN

7/26 game. Ended just before 2AM, 19 innings, Braves won 4-3.

Find it once the video's posted. Oh, my.

19 innings and 2 AM? They're lucky the umps could keep their eyes open in the first place. I would think fatigue played a large role in the mistake, but it really was a dozy.

[MD Longhorn]

OK, maybe I need to get off the road too. I've not seen it in slo-mo, and only got 3 angles on ESPN... but all the outrage about how horrible call this was is confounding me. On all 3 of the replays, at normal speed, it appears to me that the tag attempt, while made in PLENTY of time, simply missed the runner entirely.

Is it just me?