Kev, ... I think it hit him ....think about it ....Martinez whinces, groans, Napoli doesn't go after the ball ....why? See what I mean ?
Oh yes, the arguement-solving three -run blast was great, ....................UNTIL the game ending granny!!
I meant that the umpires other than the PU could not have definitively seen it. It had to be the PU's call. It was a glance off the fabric. You have to see/hear it, or it has to be definitive. Sometimes we can tell from out there because of a change of speed or direction of the ball. The change of direction came from it hitting Napoli.
So they conferred and decided that it probably hit him, based on his and Napoli's actions, so let's put R2 back on second.
Any chance the other umpires went off of the reaction of Martinez and Napoli? More less an educated guess?