The 2023 Running Baseball Thread

The umpire the night before made the correct call. Replay reversed it.

 

The umpire must indicate why he called him safe. By not calling it a force off, it was subject to reversal.

New York’s hands were tied once he didn’t indicate a force off. Tito is screaming at that crew and by then it is out of even the crew chief’s hands. Nobody can make it right.

They need to change that rule.

 

I imagine he called him safe because he thought he was safe. He beat the throw and the tag. Probably never even saw the guy come off the base. Regardless, the replay people overturned it and made it wrong. None of this really justifies Ramirez/the Guardians being so upset.

 

Once the runner is ruled safe by normal means and once the runner is nudged from the base by Anderson and the tag is made on him as the runner is no longer making contact with the bag, the ruling of safe via being forced off the bag is off the table and New York’s only choice is to rule the runner out.

Tim Anderson could’ve kicked the leg off the base and under the umpire’s ruling, he’d still be called out on replay.

I advocate for an eye in the sky ruling on something like this

 

The Diamondbacks manager went about this the wrong way. If they finish .500, that still represents progress. But if they had been a .500 team from start to finish, it would look a lot better than an immediate rise and a crash.

 

The replay officials calling him out on that play was beyond nuts.

 

Meh.

I’m still waiting for another Nolan Ryan style headlock pounding.

 

The best thing about that clip is Ventura realizing, about two steps from Ryan, that he done fucked up.

 

Jose Ramirez the ballplayer has to meet Jose Ramirez the light welterweight.

 

And lest we forget, the Giants are leading the wild card division despite having two dedicated starters, a cast of bullpenners and an offense with all the pop of spitwads through a straw.

 

But did they win the offseason? #JC

 

If only.