More fun with replay

[Thunderheads]

they still don't get it .....big-brother is watching .........stay on the bag.  I don't like it, but ...it is what it is

[stkjock]

another call that the rule was not intended for!

[noumpere]

another call that the rule was not intended for!

Disagree.  "Coming off the base" is just a very small "overrun" or "overslide" and it's not allowed.

 

In this case, R1 can go back in slower or slide -- either of which might lead to an out on the pickoff (maybe not here, specifically).

 

It's part of the balance in the rules between offense and defense.

[stkjock]

I understand your point, I just think a review and out call is so ticky tack in this instance.

[DVA7130]

I understand your point, I just think a review and out call is so ticky tack in this instance.

Exactly. Who would give two craps about this play two years ago.

[ElkOil]

The biggest reason for my growing aversion to IR is because it is changing the way the game is played where people are playing to the review process instead of the review process existing to correct incorrect calls.  I really wish they'd do away with challenges like this and allow the managers to question whatever calls they want, but allow IR only as a tool for the umpires to use at their own discretion.  I believe there is enough integrity in officiating that they would use it appropriately.

[smckin]

Well said ElkOil

[scrounge]

I'm perfectly fine with the call and the system. I like that there is at least some risk of blowing your one and only challenge on a small call like this and not have it for later when you might need it a whole lot more.

He wasn't on the bag and was tagged. Too bad. Step better next time.

[MadMax]

This is the Battle of Los Angeles, son! Of course these two teams are going to use any angle, any opportunity to their advantage. And speaking of tools, these two managers (and their staffs) are two of the biggest in the game.

This is a very nonchalant, routine, innocuous play – pitcher throws a casual pick-off over, R1 retreats to the bag, F3 places a token brush tag (or doesn't even bother), and the ball is returned to F1. This time, though, F3 saw something that only a camera could.

That, good sirs, is an out.

And to no fault of the U1, there's no way he would have been able to see that. It's certainly within the IR rules, and the intent and spirit of those rules, to verify tag/no-tag. If anyone's got a problem with that, then teach that kid Seager how to retreat to a bag properly.