He was several feet away from the base and the rule the umpire cited was he ran into the SS. That's why it is a bad call.
Commentators are saying he ran out of the base path and toward the fielder, altering his play, which is interference regardless of contract according to rule 8-4.c.1
and now another fucked up call. They reviewed and made the right call that it was fair, but no way is the batter held to 1st base on that.
That was only an explanation and as a player that played all the way through college and was mostly a middle infielder, I disagree with the call as did the 2 ex major league players in the booth. That rule is not black and white.
They fucked the Beavers over twice on that one play. It should have been called fair and Kwan might have scored on that play and Grenier would have easily been on second.
You'd think on a call that close, it's better to call it fair and let it play out, then overturn if you're wrong, rather than what they did. Just like in football, where it's better not to blow a pay dead unless you're absolutely certain. It's just impossible to recreate actual gameplay, bit it's generally possible to reverse it.
With all this pitching incompetence, I don't think anyone can legitimately blame the Beavers' present position on the umps.
It was a complete joke. But beyond that, let's not pretend both OSU and UO campuses don't (and haven't) had several criminals on their campuses over the years....
Yeah, but I don’t recall many of those criminals being chimos. That still played after the news broke...
That’s not really comparable, for one they played while being investigated so innocent till proven guilty am I correct? Also, the players were expelled and iirc they weren’t convicted. Not saying they didn’t do it, they probably did but it could’ve been a Duke lacrosse story too behind the scenes.
Man, fuck a whole lot of this Beaver Baseball garbage. Next thing you know we'll be talking about the fucking Timbers.
