Pujols HR reviewed

[Larry1953]

Originally Posted by cbfoulds

WTF are you talking about: "play out"?

Maybe I'm too much in the "who cares" camp, but I was under the impression [from the early posts] that, in this case, if it WASN'T a HR, it was a GR Double, not Play On?

In which case, what's to "play out"?

Either way, the umpires had to make a ruling RIGHT THEN, not wait and see what happens.

I watched the Houston archive of the play. Jim Deshaies (absolutely the BEST color commentator in the game) said exactly the same thing I did. That is, if the HR is at all borderline let it "play out" so you don't have to figure out where to place the runners - if you reverse it on review, it is easy just to send everyone home, right?

I am not aware of any rule or interpretation that would convert a HR into a "ground rule/ book rule" double after review overturned the HR. Actually, think of all the HR reviews you've seen. About the only HRs overturned were because they were foul. This is one of the very few I can remember where the runners would have to go back.

On the Houston feed they showed the imprint of where the ball struck at the very top of the padding. On the StL feed the announcers were equally incredulous. Both feeds asked "what view did they see on replay where they saw HR?"