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GarandMarine:
I thought it was game six for some reason XD
LookingIn:
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--- Quote from: LookingIn on 27 Oct 2013, 13:15 ---Instant replay in baseball can't come soon enough. The hell with the "tradition" of blindness, bad calls, moronic bowing to the crew chief's word when all evidence is to the contrary: they need to institute it. :oops: :x
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Yeah, but at least they got that obstruction call right in game 3.
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It might be "right" in the literal sense but on replay you could see he didn't interfere directly and with intent to slow down the runner- it was wrong place, wrong time. But that won't change the outcome anymore and the win last night put that to rest for the time being...but it's not the only play this fall that has been the subject of debate about the usage.
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--- Quote from: MLB Rulebook ---OBSTRUCTION is the act of a fielder who, while not in possession of the ball and not in the act of fielding the ball, impedes the progress of any runner.
Rule 2.00 (Obstruction) Comment: If a fielder is about to receive a thrown ball and if the ball is in flight directly toward and near enough to the fielder so he must occupy his position to receive the ball he may be considered “in the act of fielding a ball.” It is entirely up to the judgment of the umpire as to whether a fielder is in the act of fielding a ball. After a fielder has made an attempt to field a ball and missed, he can no longer be in the “act of fielding” the ball. For example: an infielder dives at a ground ball and the ball passes him and he continues to lie on the ground and delays the progress of the runner, he very likely has obstructed the runner.
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Absent is the word "intentional." Obstruction is obstruction whether it's accidental or not.
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The key words there are "in the act of fielding", which he actually was and was thanks to the this act in the line of the runner through no fault of the fielder. This would have been revealed in the replay, he on the ground still in motion from the fall when the runner jumped over him.
But like I said, it'll open the door for the usage to come. There is no longer any argument that it wouldn't be helpful, there are enough incidents this postseason let alone the season as a whole to put it in place permanently.
ev4n:
If we'd had video replay, there would have been TWO triple plays in world series history.
LookingIn:
--- Quote from: ev4n on 29 Oct 2013, 05:30 ---If we'd had video replay, there would have been TWO triple plays in world series history.
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Maybe, but the justification is there. This isn't like the whole "play until it's over" weather suspension argument from 2008, just because it is "tradition" is no longer an excuse especially when it has actually affected the outcome of a game.
GarandMarine:
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