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Baseball. Blogging. Whenever.Wednesday, October 21, 2009And That Happened: ALCSYankees 10, Angels 1: I-95 Series here we come. As the geniuses out there predicted, CC was studly on short rest. As has been the case all postseason, A-Rod was huge (3-for-4, two-run homer, three runs scored).Man, that umpiring. Calling Swisher out on the tagup play was an obvious makeup call. Of course, like the unwritten rules, umpires say there are no such things as makeup calls, so we should probably ignore it, right? I guess we can just be thankful that it didn't have an impact on the ultimate outcome of the game. Pointless day off today. Burtnett vs. Lackey tomorrow. Philly vs. New York, hell, sometime around Thanksgiving, I think. Posted by Craig Calcaterra at 5:35am Comments
Jay Reisinger said...
Back, and to the right, back, and to the right . . . Posted 10/21 at 12:45 PM
Jay Reisinger said...
For others: Back, and to the left… back, and to the left… back, and to the left. Posted 10/21 at 12:47 PM
scatterbrian said...
McClelland was out of position on both the sac-fly and the botched double play. Totally inexcusable. The thing that really surprised me was the lack of fight from Scioscia. He gets more worked up during the season on a fairly regular basis, but I don’t think he left the dugout on the missed pickoff, and he sort of blew them off the missed double play. Where’s the fire? What was really annoying—and I’m admittedly beating a dead horse here—was the Bucarver’s coverage of the three missed calls. They showed a close-up replay of the Swisher pick-off once, and pretty much ignored the blown double play (which was so obviously wrong, my roommate who doesn’t watch baseball asked “Wait, aren’t both of them out?”). But they harped on the sac fly, showing replays from multiple angles no less than five times. I don’t have a dog in this fight, I’m just curious why only one of the three blown calls was important to Bucarver. Posted 10/21 at 01:11 PM
Mode:Theif and Lair said...
scatterbrain, Totally agree on the out of position of McClelland. I wonder if Scioscia got a little gun shy after making a huge fuss on the Teixeira call in game one, which in replay showed the call was correct. Not sure if I got a dfferent feed for the FOX broadcast (sarcasm), but I thought Buck and Carver correctly called out the umpires on all three calls. Didn’t they even do a “freeze cam” on the blown call at second? What they didn’t do, if I recall correctly, is talk about how McClelland’s blown call on Swisher at third wouldn’t even have happened if they had gotten the call right at second. Suggesting, ala Craig, that it was a make-up call. Posted 10/21 at 01:26 PM
scatterbrian said...
Mode: You’re right, they did pause the replay on the pickoff play, and when they did you could hear the groan of the Angels fans. It just seemed to me that they spent the most time on the sac fly compared to the other two. Being a make-up call crossed my mind when it happened, but I’m wondering if that’s giving McClelland too much credit… Posted 10/21 at 01:38 PM
Nate said...
I’m real tired of the bad umpiring. Shouldn’t all professional refs be subjected to annual (bi?) performance reviews, eye/rule understanding tests? It’s not like these guys are getting min wage. “Do you want to know the terrifying truth, or do you want to see me sock a few dingers?” Posted 10/21 at 01:42 PM
scatterbrian said...
Dingers! Dingers! Posted 10/21 at 01:59 PM
Bon said...
Reverse vampires crave the sun. They’re from Tansylvania. Posted 10/21 at 09:12 PM
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