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Old Thu Sep 26, 2013, 07:12am
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This was a mess

Disclaimer: I'm a Braves fan and this was about as childish as I've seen adults act in quite a while (on both sides).

The play is what it is, and I don't have an issue with anything the umps did, specifically concerning counting Gomez's run even though he didn't touch home. Scoring the run made sense in a lot of ways as a fan.

My only question - is there a rules basis for allowing Gomez's run to score even though he didn't touch home?

Seems like McCain should have been ejected for blocking his path to the plate (i.e., because he didn't physically allow Gomez to score) along with Reed Johnson since he came into the scrum and pushed.

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Old Thu Sep 26, 2013, 07:50am
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You can award bases based on obstruction and if the obstruction is the proximate cause of the runner missing the base you can deem the runner to have touched it.
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Old Thu Sep 26, 2013, 08:40am
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Look at all those fans dressed in blue plastic...yikes.
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Old Thu Sep 26, 2013, 08:50am
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You can award bases based on obstruction and if the obstruction is the proximate cause of the runner missing the base you can deem the runner to have touched it.
That makes sense, but I don't know of a rule/interp to use for cover.
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Old Thu Sep 26, 2013, 09:41am
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Don't have a ruling for OBR but NCAA adopted this in 2013

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A.R. 4—If obstruction causes a runner to miss a base, the runner shall not be called out on appeal for missing the base.
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Old Thu Sep 26, 2013, 10:53am
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This is the same as if the fans pour onto the field. If the runner is unable to reach the plate due to outside forces, he will be considered to have touched the plate. I believe is covered in the MLBUM.

On the other side of this, Gomez is an a-hole for jawing. Just run your bases and let the score speak for itself. What a jackarse!
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Old Thu Sep 26, 2013, 11:33am
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This is the same as if the fans pour onto the field. If the runner is unable to reach the plate due to outside forces, he will be considered to have touched the plate.
It is the same, all that is required is a suspension of disbelief.

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Old Thu Sep 26, 2013, 09:06pm
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On the other side of this, Gomez is an a-hole for jawing. Just run your bases and let the score speak for itself. What a jackarse!
The Braves have hit him three (IIRC) times after hitting home runs. Not saying I condone what he did, but I understand.
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Old Fri Sep 27, 2013, 11:31am
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Oh, great. The youth of America will see this and guess what WE will have to deal with next season?

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Old Fri Sep 27, 2013, 11:57am
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If the Braves' sensibilities are so easily offended, perhaps they should watch, oh, every other Justin Upton home run. Or pretty much a home run every night. Then maybe that big baby McCann can stop getting all butthurt and stop being the self-appointed Baseball Police.
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If the Braves' sensibilities are so easily offended, perhaps they should watch, oh, every other Justin Upton home run. Or pretty much a home run every night. Then maybe that big baby McCann can stop getting all butthurt and stop being the self-appointed Baseball Police.
My first ejection there would've been McCann. How he didn't get run actually amazes me. He *started* the bench-clearer.
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My first ejection there would've been McCann. How he didn't get run actually amazes me. He *started* the bench-clearer.
C'mon, you're kidding, right? Gomez started everything, from the moment he started jaw-jacking at McCann when he got in the box, gave Maholm the stare-down on his way to first base, mouthed off at Freeman as he rounded first, and then berated Maholm again rounding second all the way until McCann confronted him. Do you really fault McCann for not ignoring it?

I'm not defending what McCann did, and I agree he should've gotten run. But he never laid a hand on Gomez. He simply blocked the base path and stood his ground when Gomez approached him. Yeah, he had a few choice words for him, but I never saw a push or chest bump or any other physical contact. And it was obvious Gomez had no desire to go touch home. He was looking for a fight.
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Oh, great. The youth of America will see this and guess what WE will have to deal with next season?
Ummm, have you ever watched a high school game in the last, oh, 50 years or so?

I still recall a game I played in my high school days Puerto Rico. We had a fight that included players wielding bats, and a couple of fans coming onto the field with machetes. I shit you not. Thank goodness there were a couple of undercover cops at the game that made their presence known pretty quickly, and they escorted us onto the bus to get the hell out of there.
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..... But he never laid a hand on Gomez. He simply blocked the base path and stood his ground when Gomez approached him. Yeah, he had a few choice words for him, but I never saw a push or chest bump or any other physical contact.
.....and that's why he stayed in the game.
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Maholm is an idiot for throwing that same pitch in the same location to a MLB hitter. 83 MPH in the middle of the plate. It's like saying, "Hit me out!"

The end of a long season for the Brew Crew.
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