Greg Gibson Spiked in the Face

[Steven Tyler]

Originally Posted by Matt

No, he was at the point of the plate. Had he been 3BLX, he would have had a great angle to determine if he got under the tag.

Anyone know what the call ended up being?

He can see just as well as where he was at, if not better. What happened was a once in a life time thing. You can't just adjust on a split second.

[MD Longhorn]

I stand corrected.

[RadioBlue]

You see a lot more contact (and a bunch of near misses) between players and umpires at 3BLX than you do PoP or 1BLX. I think the bigger problem here was Gibson being down on one knee when the play developed. He couldn't move when he needed to.

[CT1]

Originally Posted by RadioBlue

You see a lot more contact (and a bunch of near misses) between players and umpires at 3BLX than you do PoP or 1BLX. I think the bigger problem here was Gibson being down on one knee when the play developed. He couldn't move when he needed to.

Probably the unfortunate combination of PoP positioning & being on one knee. I'd never recommend that.

[Matt]

Originally Posted by Steven Tyler

He can see just as well as where he was at, if not better.

No, he couldn't.

Originally Posted by Steven Tyler

What happened was a once in a life time thing. You can't just adjust on a split second.

You can't adjust on a split second, but he should have been making an adjustment earlier. Also, being on a knee limits your ability to make a last-second lean to adjust, in addition to being dangerous as we saw here.