WS #1 Call Corrected

[Andy]

Originally Posted by bluejay

The umpire, Dana Dumuth, was looking at the base, it appears to me, and the arm motion of the SS fooled him.
OTL on ESPN just had a very good story on this and the proposed review system they will be voting on this winter. They had Don Denkinger and Jim McKeon talking about a play Doenkinger made against S L in the W S several years ago.

None of us can throw stones.

Agreed that none of us can throw stones as I'm sure we all have similar moments to this on the ball field.

But we can take the opportunity to learn from these to help our game.

Personally, I think that he was too close to the play and his focus went away from the ball into the glove to the foot on the base. If he was a bit further back, peripheral vision may have picked up that the ball wasn't cleanly caught.