He Really Saw This?!

[Manny A]

Originally Posted by jicecone

Really- I thinks its more like your Opinion, not a Practice.

Ummm, that's EXACTLY what happened here.

I'm not suggesting that that's the way it happens all the time. But for some reason, U3 felt he had to make this final call instead of U1. By the book, this is a violation of 9.02(c).

Where the crew chief gives the final determination is under 9.04(c) when two umpries make different calls on the same play. I didn't see that happen here, although admittedly the video replay never showed it. Perhaps U1 came up with the Catch call, and U3 gave a No Catch call. If THAT happened, then they got it right.