I don't know if anyone is watching it but they just made a terrible call unless the announcer just doesn't know the rule. Florida was up 2-1 and LSU had runners on first and third with nobody out. Ground ball to second and Florida went for the double play and got it. The umpire called interference on the guy going to second and Florida got the double play so they sent the runner back to third. They said he went out of the baseline to get the shortstop. I call BS and I think the announcer are full of it. I say that because the guy sliding into second's butt actually hit the base as he went by. His feet were a little to the side but his butt hit the base. If they wanted to tell me that the slide was late and therefore dangerous I would believe that but I don't know if that is a rule in college baseball.
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Wow, Glen
. Saving a horrible take for this late at night. He was obviously sliding at the 2nd baseman. You don't slide with the intention of hitting your butt on the slide, either.
. Saving a horrible take for this late at night. He was obviously sliding at the 2nd baseman. You don't slide with the intention of hitting your butt on the slide, either.I strongly disagree. Like I said, his butt hit the base. That means you are in the baseline.Wow, Glen
From the rule book
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- “Directly into a base” means the runner’s entire body (feet, legs, trunk and arms) must stay in a straight line between the bases. "
If that is truly how that should be interpreted than the rule needs to be changed in the morning. I'm all for protecting middle infielders but like I said, if you want to make the case that it was late and they should call interference for that I would buy it but that was a load of crap.
Baseball sucks and I didn't see it, but if you somehow manage to slide past the bag and clip the ss/2nd baseman, that is worse than swerving into the side of the base which isn't ever really called, and shouldn't be. But if you go straight over the bag, cleats in the air, the SS should submarine the ball right into your face. College baseball is junk. PING!
It was technically the correct call because he pursued the runner fielder outside of the baseline, but to make that call at that point of a pivotal inning in the college World Series takes a sack. If he didn't make that call would the other coach get pissed? Most likely not. It was a baseball play but he took over. There is always some level of judgement given to the umpire for cases like this and he used it. May have been by the book but if I were an LSU coach I would have gotten run.
He slid into the fielder and not at the base. Not sure what the controversy is. Pretty cut and dry.
You can't pick and choose which rules you are going to follow.
You can't pick and choose which rules you are going to follow.
Ok, he was close enough to the baseline but he fn cleats him right bellow the knee. Justifiable interference call. Blatant and obvious. Looked even worse after the fact when his foot comes flying up in the air.
Stupid baseball player is stupid. He didn't understand the situation with tying run at third.
Stupid baseball player is stupid. He didn't understand the situation with tying run at third.
OK, if you all say I'm wrong I guess I'll accept it. I will say this. Baseball used to be my favorite sport. I could watch spring training games. I haven't watched a MLB game this century since they screwed up that game with over expansion, cracker jack ballparks and steroids. Figured I would give it another try but if that is going out of the baseline I won't even give the college game a chance ever again.
If he put his cleats down, that isn't called. Ever. He went in with intent to harm, harmed, and followed through with a ridiculously high leg.
Like I said, if the call was the slide was too late and dangerous I would have been fine with it.
That's what it was, Glenn. He went after the thrower in a blatantly dangerous manner. Idk how the announcers explained it, but they're probably idiots who dont' watch baseball bc wtf watches baseball.
1st and 3rd with no outs and tying run at 3rd. If you can't push that run across, that's on you.
Glen
No, because he's wrong.
Awful take, Glen
.So you're pissed at an umpire over an interpretation of a rule because of what the announcer THOUGHT the umpire believed.
That truly is an awful take Glenn. I didnt see the game but I'm guessing they didn't interview the umpire to see why he made the call.
Just because the announcer says something doesn't mean he's right.
That truly is an awful take Glenn. I didnt see the game but I'm guessing they didn't interview the umpire to see why he made the call.
Just because the announcer says something doesn't mean he's right.
Sorta, but I mean, it wasn't exactly his butt that touched the base, it was more like his right scapula -- still though, your shoulder bone is connected to your collar bone, and your collar bone is connected to your back bone, and your back bone is connected to your hip bone, and your hip bone is...Glen
College umpiring and rules of this kind of play are more strict than mlb rules. There was a discussion of this during one of UK's regional games.
His toe hit him, not his heel, not his thigh and it didn't even knock him down. I'm with Glenn on this one.
I doubt any one of those guys could "fit" in between the bases. It's a rule of intrepretation. If you get 10 umps out there 5 may see it one way and 5 the other. It was a good hard slide and the guy clipped the fielder just like I has been done for 100+ years. To me, the rule was written to protect the fielder from getting taken completely out and putting them in harm, not hitting their shin with the top of their foot enough to try to disturb the throw. I understand the stance that it was the right call because the rule allows for both of us to argue about it, but that is my point.
It was the right call. Runner was out of the baseline, didn't even touch the bag (not even his butt touched the bag), and he went cleats up towards the SS. You have to protect the fielder in that situation. You make that call so the next guy doesn't do it even more blatantly. Careers have been ended on that exact type of play.
He could have gone in cleats high as long as he was in the baseline and touched the bag. But he didnt.
And while MLB umps give a little more leeway on those types of plays...even they wouldn't have on THAT specific play. Dude didn't even come close to touching the bag.
Overlooked by everyone in this thread is how great of a play the SS made. Textbook.
And once again...HORRIBLE take, Glennnnnn.
smh
He could have gone in cleats high as long as he was in the baseline and touched the bag. But he didnt.
And while MLB umps give a little more leeway on those types of plays...even they wouldn't have on THAT specific play. Dude didn't even come close to touching the bag.
Overlooked by everyone in this thread is how great of a play the SS made. Textbook.
And once again...HORRIBLE take, Glennnnnn
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