Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
June 04, 2008
Limits of Replay

There was just a disputed home run call in Boston. Pedroia hit one down the rightfield line that the umpires called foul initially, and after consultation agreed it was foul. The replay was somewhat inconclusive. Jerry Remy said the ball disappeared behind the pole. But there's a screen on the pole, and to my eye the ball was in front of that screen. There's are lights that run up and down the pole, and it seemed to me that the ball disappeared in the glare of the light.

Bottom line is I couldn't tell from that angle. If anything, it looked to me like the ball might have grazed the pole and changed angle ever so slightly, in which case it would be a home run. But that replay was little help in determining that.


Posted by David Pinto at 07:26 PM | Umpires | TrackBack (0)
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