After four innings, there have been two close plays at the plate already, testing the capacity of Jerry Layne early on.
The first came on an infield chopper, involving the light loafered, heavy bat, Alex Rodriguez.
As you can see, Layne has himself in perfect public dumping position to make the right call. And he did.
Play number two was on a two run single off the bat of Melky Cabrera.
Again, despite the tricks depth perception can play on the eyes, Cano sneaks in safely. Layne, barely pictured on the right, set up properly like he is above in the A-Rod run.
Just a few pitches later, Kazmir had Swisher picked off second base.
Dale Scott, 2B umpire, clearly missed this call. And he thought his only job tonight was looking for spitting pitchers.
Quit texting all your friends how the Umpires have screwed you, Angels fans, because Crew Chief, Tim McClelland, exonerated his counterpart with a convenient make-up call by saying Swisher didn't tag properly on this Johnny Damon flyout:
Normally, I don't believe that two wrongs make a right, but the score after this half was right.
Oh shit, A-Rod just homered and somewhere in the dugout, Derek Jeter is prepping his butt cheeks.
UPDATE: And McClellend isn't so "chief" after all. He blatantly missed a call in the top of the 5th that turned out to mean absolutely nothing. With that being said, it doesn't do much for the overall credibility with the rest of the calls. Angels fans are buzzing.
Here is the screen grab:
You can watch it here.The Human Element They Say [Deadspin]
11 comments:
what should have happened on that last play? i'm still confused and joe buck and tim mccarver didnt really help clarify it for me.
Both were off the base and tagged. It should have been the end of the inning right there. But the next batter grounded out, so it didn't really make much of a difference.
These guys are pathetic. I'm only an assistant JV baseball coach and I may know more about the rules than the crews working the playoffs this year.
I'm surprised he didn't call them both safe!
That play killed the Angels!! The momentum may have swung in their favor and changed the game going forward. Instead the botched call totally broke the back of the Angels. Did a run score, no, but the emotional damage is irreversable.
Actually, from what I saw, the tag is irrelevant on Cano b/c the catcher touched 3rd base with his foot while holding the ball in his hand prior to Cano touching 3rd, meaning that it is a force-out regardless of the tag.
Replays are killing the integrity of every sport. Of course there are going to be missed calls and the fans are going to go absolutely nuts. Considering there are 800 different camera angles in HD that can zoom in on the smallest speck of dirt. Everybody wants more replays when there should be none. It destroys the fluidity of a game and in the end, things would take care of themselves throughout most games as it is.
The catcher touching the base is irrelevant because there was no force. There was no one on first base before the ball was hit forcing Cano to third.
Cano should have touched the base and stayed there forcing Posada back but didn't and so both runners were tagged off the base with the ball and they should have both been an out.
Napoli pulls his foot from the bag to tag both of them. The ump just missed it.
to the comment regarding Buck and McCarver failing to explain the play: why would you expect any different - McCarver says very little of any use, and Buck is there because of his jaw profile and last name, not any talent he may have.
Hey guys. any chance you have a shot of the Swisher Hit-by-Pitch? I could tell it missed his foot on live TV and my DVR replay confirmed..as if the laws of physics with the way the ball bounced up wasn't enough...just trying to add fuel to the fire about the umps. they're pathetic
No Stephen we do not. If you still have it on your DVR, take a screen shot and we'll add it to the post.
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