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I think that was nonsense. The ball was so easily and clearly retrievable. We saw at least half the ball exposed and so the player can just raise their hands and say oh it's too hard to retrieve with no attempt made so it's a double. How ridiculous. This wasn't a situation where it was clearly a hard to retrieve ball.
 
Bender said:
I think that was nonsense. The ball was so easily and clearly retrievable. We saw at least half the ball exposed and so the player can just raise their hands and say oh it's too hard to retrieve with no attempt made so it's a double. How ridiculous. This wasn't a situation where it was clearly a hard to retrieve ball.
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Yea, I'm not sure how something can be declared "lodged" or dead when there was literally no attempt to even try to extract the ball. Immediately the fielder stopped and didn't go near it. Just alot of things that didn't go our way, unfortunately (not to mention Schneider leaving Gimenez in in the 7th with a runner on, down by 2, against a LHP that is especially susceptible to RHB)
 
I know only wins matter right now, but I really thought the jays were the better team last night. And this was against the best pitching LA was going to throw out there.

I’m not crazy about game 7 though.
 
Bender said:
I think that was nonsense. The ball was so easily and clearly retrievable. We saw at least half the ball exposed and so the player can just raise their hands and say oh it's too hard to retrieve with no attempt made so it's a double. How ridiculous. This wasn't a situation where it was clearly a hard to retrieve ball.
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Yup, once he saw there was no bounce he knew he was effed, that was an inside the park home run. Dirty but heads up play by Dean. Too bad the video review was so ridiculous. I thought it was a lodged ball UNTIL I saw the replay, they want us to believe the replay convinced them it was a lodged ball. Lol.
 
Oracle said:
Yup, once he saw there was no bounce he knew he was effed, that was an inside the park home run. Dirty but heads up play by Dean. Too bad the video review was so ridiculous. I thought it was a lodged ball UNTIL I saw the replay, they want us to believe the replay convinced them it was a lodged ball. Lol.
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To be honest as soon as the play happened I said to my wife ‘that’s a lodged ball, they’re going to send the runners back’.

I don’t think there was anything dirty there. Sure he could have picked it up, but that was a smart play to not touch the ball.


I don’t think there was any BS there. The rule was applied correctly. Sucks, but that’s baseball.
 
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Joe S. said:
To be honest as soon as the play happened I said to my wife ‘that’s a lodged ball, they’re going to send the runners back’.

I don’t think there was anything dirty there. Sure he could have picked it up, but that was a smart play to not touch the ball.


I don’t think there was any BS there. The rule was applied correctly. Sucks, but that’s baseball.
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It's a stupid rule, but it was called correctly.
 
Not a forensics expert or anything, but it seems to me a ball lodged under the padding would have the top obscured. I can clearly see the entire dome of the ball in this picture. It's not lodged, it made a dent in the padding and say there, on the ground, unlodged. :)

Edit: I guess I'm not allowed to upload images, here's the link, download, open with a picture viewer, and zoom in on the ball. It's clearly just sitting there by the fence.

 
Oracle said:
Not a forensics expert or anything, but it seems to me a ball lodged under the padding would have the top obscured. I can clearly see the entire dome of the ball in this picture. It's not lodged, it made a dent in the padding and say there, on the ground, unlodged. :)

Edit: I guess I'm not allowed to upload images, here's the link, download, open with a picture viewer, and zoom in on the ball. It's clearly just sitting there by the fence.

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Have a look at the link I provided and the pic. It looks the same as what we saw.
 
It was definitely lodged. It was hit way too hard to hit the ground/wall and die like that. Could it have been easily retrieved? Sure, but, unfortunately, that’s not the rule.
 
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