Tigers vs Yankees Blown call at 2B

[jwwashburn]

I have never worked a 6 man or, even a 4 man crew in a baseball game.

My question is why the 2nd Base Umpire was running toward that play instead of in position? Am I ignorant of some other responsibility?

Joe in Florida
PS Go Tigers.

[Rita C]

Originally Posted by jwwashburn

I have never worked a 6 man or, even a 4 man crew in a baseball game.

My question is why the 2nd Base Umpire was running toward that play instead of in position? Am I ignorant of some other responsibility?

Joe in Florida
PS Go Tigers.

I was wondering that as well. My thinking is that he was in C?

But he should have been still. But I think the announcers need to realize they did have a better angle on it than the umpire.

But I haven't gone over it on replay yet.

(I just watched it over and over again on replay. IMHO, the umpire was too close and his head was moving.

But my favorite moment was when one of the reporters asked Girardi as he was whining about the "need" for IR, "But, Joe, you guys didn't score any runs!")

Rita

[RPatrino]

He certainly was moving while viewing the play and never really even came to a set position to call make the call. Had he been set he might have had a better chance to get the call right.

In this situation he would have been coming from B, I believe, however it does make me wonder why he was running to get into position.

[qcumpire]

It almost looks like he was too close to the play to see the tag underneath the runner.

[jicecone]

Exactly my thought when I watched. He was too close to the play and saw the runners back but, not Cano tagging him below.

As pointed out though, there were two other runs scored in the game and NY didn't have any of them. So I guess the winning run was the missd call. SH## happens.

[umpjim]

No excuse for the umpire for the reasons posted but why was there no tag to the bag by F4?

[55BLUE]

did anyone see the other blown call? there was a catcher interference yesterday with Nix up the inning before the Cano mess... it killed a rally bc he should have had first base with Ichiro coming up. not a single person reacted, not an umpire, not the batter, not a coach, not even the idiot announcers who saw it on replay

[Manny A]

Originally Posted by 55BLUE

did anyone see the other blown call? there was a catcher interference yesterday with Nix up the inning before the Cano mess... it killed a rally bc he should have had first base with Ichiro coming up. not a single person reacted, not an umpire, not the batter, not a coach, not even the idiot announcers who saw it on replay

I have a hard time believing that if the announcers saw it, they didn't react.

How noticeable was it? If the batter and coaches didn't react, I have to believe it wasn't so blatant that it qualifies as a "blown call".