Call reversed

[Bfair]

I once queried the WUA as to whether the base ump should approach the plate ump if he saw a pitch fouled to the catcher's chest protector and then drop into the catcher's glove----but the PU then calls it a foul tip for strike 3...............

Included in Roder's response was this statement........

However, we at the MLB level would lean toward getting the play right.
We have just such instructions written word-for-word in the MLB manual.
[my emphasis]

When it comes to reversing calls, some at times have supported a List of 5 that was advocated by some but never endorsed by any authoritative opinion. All major sets of baseball rules somewhere advocate the need for the umpire to put aside his perceived ego and "getting the play right" when it's apparent he's made an obvious error. It seems that the Roder statement provides further proof that the need of "getting the play right" is now supported by MLB's maunual (their little black book). Apparently someone forgot to tell the writers of MLB's little black book to read the List of 5.

That concept was apparently adhered to in this situation.
No doubt they would have gotten it correct initially if they were working a 6 man crew......or even a 2 man crew---like where we are expected to always get them right........LOL.


Just my opinion,

Freix