David Rackley

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On the appeal play in which he called Andres Torres out in the Mets @ Cardinals game today, he made two mistakes:
1) Torres touched the bag.
2) Rackley held his head over first base afterwards, basically implying to St. Louis that he missed the bag.

I think one instruction needs to be given to umpires here:
Runners are assumed to have touched the bag/plate unless it is extremely obvious that he didn't. After all, in all the major league games this year, how many runners miss the bag/plate, maybe five?

If this happened in a postseason game, as Al Michaels would say: 'There would be hell to pay.'