Ok. Don't want to argue about this forever, but no one batted the ball...watch the replay again. And what you're suggesting doesn't even make sense. The defender grabbed Thomas wrist, and was falling to the ground, how could he have batted it forward? How could Thomas bat if forward if he dropped the ball?? The refs did not mention anything about any "batted balls".
Ok. Don't want to argue about this forever, but no one batted the ball...watch the replay again. And what you're suggesting doesn't even make sense. The defender grabbed Thomas wrist, and was falling to the ground, how could he have batted it forward? How could Thomas bat if forward if he dropped the ball?? The refs did not mention anything about any "batted balls".
Taylor could hit it with any part of his body. That he was falling down does not preclude his momentum from carrying him forward to strike the ball. And if you're asking how Thomas could have had the ball dislodged and then batted it forward... I don't know what to tell you except to watch volleyball some time. Or soccer. They manage to move the ball all over the place without throwing it. They didn't? Well, shoot. If they didn't say it then it must not have happened. They also didn't mention bigfoot... where was he on the play? What they DID say was that it wasn't an incomplete pass. Must have been bigfoot, though, rather than a ball hit by a player, since they didn't mention that it was hit. Ed O.
