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Monday, September 06, 2010
This Week in Silly Baseballness
This is the Michael Young play at 3B (though also be impressed by Orlando Hudson’s range). Here’s the video. Go to the 51 second mark. Notice that the umpire is not even looking at Michael Young! And he calls him out. And, the rule is pretty clear that it’s not just incidental contact (and I can’t even tell if even that level of contact existsed here), but contact to an extent where the physical contact assists the runner (if the rule was intended to mean any kind of contact whatsoever, it would have said that).
The umpire should only call what he sees, and not try to infer what things may have happened. It’s clear here that the umpire inferred something from what he might have seen based on his peripheral vision.
And why he wasn’t even looking at the runner (what the heck else should he have been doing??) is also on the table here.
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