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From: [email protected] (Pablo A Iglesias)
Subject: Re: Braves Update!!
Organization: Homewood Academic Computing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md, USA
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In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Forrest Smith) writes:
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[argument over "reasonable" players and umpires deleted]
> Incidentally, a "reasonable" home plate umpire would not have been
>so resistant to seeking the appeal to the first base umpire, as Gant
>requested. If the home plate umpire had appealed to first, the first base
>umpire could have wrung up the strike, and Gant would not have been so
>upset. If the call had been a ball, and the catcher had requested the
>appeal, it is likely the home plate umpire would have asked for the help.
Yes, but the baseball rules say you can only appeal a ball and not a
strike. There was no decision made by the umpire regarding an appeal.
Once he called it a strike the call could not be changed.
I thought that the umpire did the right thing.
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Pablo Iglesias
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