MLB Instant Replay Review 673: Jim Joyce (01)

[Lindsay]

Instant Replay Review overturned 1B Umpire Jim Joyce's safe (pulled foot) call in the top of the 5th inning of the White Sox-Red Sox game. With one out and none on, White Sox batter Adam Eaton hit a 0-0 fastball from Red Sox pitcher Clay Buchholz on the ground to shortstop Stephen Drew, who threw...

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[scrounge]

No way that should be overturned

[Rulekeep]

Well, it took somebody half the season to finally question Jim. What a legend.

[GreyhoundAggie]

It looks like he got it 100% right. Can't believe that was overturned. It's not clear and convincing to me at all.

[Mad Mike]

I wonder if they over turned it based on a tag of the runner's shoulder when the ball was in the fielder's mitt. There is no way Joyce would have been looking for a tag on this play. He was focused on the fielder's foot and listening for the sound of the pop in the mitt. Perhaps New York had an angle that showed a tag? Otherwise, I agree with other posters, there is nothing clear and convincing to overturn this.

[rjt6]

I paused the video when they were showing the slo-mo replay, and when the ball first entered his glove, his TOE was still ON THE BAG

 

I guess you would say he was on his "tippy toes."