Lets say instead of hitting he ball into leftfield, EE had hit the ball to the thirdbaseman, who raced Dunn to the thirdbase bag and beat him. Lets also assume that Griffey had reached home prior to the thirdbaseman touching third.
You're saying the run would count because the force out wasn't at first and Griffey scored before thethird out.
That's not correct.That run wouldn't count. A force out is a force out.
"Don't trust any statistics you did not fake yourself."--Winston Churchill
How many times do second basemen and shortstops pull their foot off the bag before they get the ball (or never even touch the bag) on DP turns.
If umps are going to be picky, they need to be consistent.
Well....that's a bummer...
His first mistake in months.
damn
left it up over the plate
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Pete may have over managed a little there. Not that I completely disagreed with bringing in Burton, but I don't know why he didn't just leave Bray in to face Batista.
“I don’t care,” Votto said of passing his friend and former teammate. “He’s in the past. Bye-bye, Jay.”
Reds should still be up by 1...
No, I won't drop it
jb's not supposed to come in until the 8th
I was getting ready to say that Burton can't go the rest of the season without giving up a run.
"I know a lot about the law and various other lawyerings."
Hitters who avoid outs are the funnest.
I watch Bray come out after pitching to one batter, and striking him out and I'm thinking, "This is what Narron used to do to the bullpen and screw it up all the time". Hope it works for Mackinen.
Rob Neyer: "Any writer who says he'd be a better manager than the worst manager is either 1) lying (i.e. 'using poetic license') or 2) patently delusional. Which isn't to say managers don't do stupid things that you or I wouldn't."
And if Dunn "reaches" to make sure he hits the bag in an awkward stride maybe he pulls a Jason Kendall and breaks his leg.
The point is, that him missing the bag by a millimeter (if he even missed it) gave him no advantage to score in that instance. He would have scored anyway had he touched it.
It just seems like it's a case of an umpire trying to be bigger than the game to make up for a shortcoming somewhere.
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