Safe or Out?

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by rwest

mbcrowder,

I guess we are just not going to be able to agree today!

Sometimes that happens!

I'm calling her safe. And if the ball moves like this on every tag play, then I have a safe call on every tag play. There was way too much movement of the ball to suggest control. If she had closed the glove like Irish suggested you wouldn't have seen that type of movement. Most of the tag plays I see are executed better than this. And as someone else pointed out, she had to grab the ball at the end to prevent it from coming out. No control. She's safe.

You are right that it was executed poorly, and that she should have closed the glove - however, that is INDICATIVE of my point - no one is ruling safe on a similar play with a closed glove, even though the ball often moves this much on those plays as well ... you just don't see them. I completely confess that this one is close, and as one other said above, I don't think you can fault the umpire either way on this call.

At this point, I'm more curious as to how it was ruled on the field and what happened after.