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Re: Four Blind Mice
By: AndyMacFAIL Date: October 22, 2013, 1:51 pm
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John Hirschbeck is crew chief for World Series
2 hours ago AP - Sports
BOSTON (AP) -- John Hirschbeck will umpire his fourth World
Series and will be crew chief for the matchup between the Boston
Red Sox and the St. Louis Cardinals.
Hirschbeck will be behind the plate for Wednesday night's opener
at Fenway Park, with Mark Wegner at first, Dana DeMuth at
second, Paul Emmel at third, Bill Miller in left and Jim Joyce
in right. Hirschbeck also worked the Series in 1995 and 2006 and
was crew chief in 2010.
DeMuth will be working his fourth Series and Joyce his third but
first since 2001. This will be the second Series for Miller and
the first for Emmel and Wegner.
Umpires will continue to wear ''WB'' patches honoring umpire
Wally Bell, who died Oct. 14. Bell umped the 2006 World Series
and this year's All-Star game.
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Re: Four Blind Mice
By: Dave23 Date: April 23, 2014, 8:21 am
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Even with replay, the umpires got the count wrong in the
Rays-Twins game, turning what should have been a walk into an
eventual strikeout.
I'm not sure how that can happen with replay.
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Re: Four Blind Mice
By: brjones Date: April 23, 2014, 10:58 am
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There was one non-replay in the Braves-Mets game the other night
that I never posted about, but it was confusing to me. Maybe
someone here can explain.
Freddie Freeman was up. He hit a ball that pretty clearly hit
off his foot and then deflected to the middle of the infield.
Freeman took off running and made it to first base. On replay,
it was obviously a foul ball off Freeman's foot--you could even
see him grimace/limp as he took his first step, so it wasn't
just some weird spin on the ball that caused it to take a
strange bounce.
The Mets wanted to review the play, but the umpires wouldn't
allow it. The announcers acted like it was a ball-strike call,
so it couldn't be reviewed...but wasn't it a foul-fair call?
And aren't those reviewable?
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Re: Four Blind Mice
By: StrikeZone Date: April 23, 2014, 11:29 am
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Nope, fair/foul calls in the infield aren't reviewable as far as
I can tell. I was watching some game the other night (I don't
even remember what one it was) and there was a similar play to
what you're talking about, and the manager wanted a review but
they told him there wasn't anything he could do about it, even
though the replay clearly showed the call was wrong.
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Re: Four Blind Mice
By: Playtwo Date: April 23, 2014, 1:06 pm
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The play br mentions ought to be reviewable. If the ball had
mistakenly been called foul, it might not be appropriate for
that to be reviewable since there's no way to rectify the
situation after the fact (although you could call it "no
pitch").
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Re: Four Blind Mice
By: StrikeZone Date: April 23, 2014, 1:26 pm
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Nope. In the replay rules, only fair/foul calls that are made
past umpires are reviewable. That's how it was explained on the
game I was watching. So, they called that ball fair, thus it's
not reviewable.
That's how I understand it, anyway.
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Re: Four Blind Mice
By: Playtwo Date: April 23, 2014, 1:31 pm
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I'm sure you are correct, it's just that I don't see the
rationale.
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Re: Four Blind Mice
By: StrikeZone Date: April 23, 2014, 1:33 pm
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[quote author=Playtwo link=topic=78.msg177029#msg177029
date=1398277877]
I'm sure you are correct, it's just that I don't see the
rationale.
[/quote]
Preaching to the choir. It's dumb but I guess that's the rule.
Just another one of the quirks of the replay system that needs
overhauled.
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Re: Four Blind Mice
By: Jes Beard Date: April 23, 2014, 5:27 pm
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Do the umpires have the authority to call for a review of the
play themselves?
Does one umpire have the authority to call for a review of his
own decision? Of a fellow umps decision?
Can any of them simply admit that they did not really see the
play and ask to see the replay?
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Re: Four Blind Mice
By: jacey1 Date: April 24, 2014, 1:14 pm
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they way it is now, I do not like this replay system at all!!
they need to use it only on a limited basis. every other close
play makes it difficult to enjoy the game
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