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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
The worst umpiring and baserunning I’ve ever seen in the same game…
I don’t have to tell you about all the gaffes in tonight’s Yankee game. If this game isn’t the tipping point for more instant replay, nothing will be. Let’s recount the mistakes by the base runners and the umpires, and we are not even through the 5th inning:
1) Swisher gets picked off of second.
2) Umpire misses the call. Swisher appeared to be out by about a foot.
3) Umpire rules that Swisher left early on the tag. Unless he has the greatest peripheral vision in the world, he is not even looking at Swisher when the catch is made and the replay appears to show that Swisher did not leave the bag early.
4) Posada advances one base from second on a double. Absolutely horrible judgment on his part.
5) Posada and Cano completely botch their base running on the come backer by Cabrera. I have no idea why Cano is standing next to the base and not on it. In that situation, both runners usually just stand on the base and one of them is tagged out. In this instance, for no apparent reason, both runners are standing 2 feet off the base and they are both tagged out.
6) For some bizzarre reason, the same umpire that blew the Swisher tag-up call (the esteemed and highly respected Tim McClelland) rules that Cano is safe. I have no idea why. If he didn’t see both runners off the bag, he is blind.
A truly bizarre, extremely badly played and umpired game so far.
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